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Civil Service Reform. To improve the federal bureaucracy's efficiency, Carter proposed that hiring and firing procedures be streamlined for the Government's 2.8 million civil service employees. For high-level bureaucrats, he also recommended greater use of salary incentives based on job performance. Last week the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee approved a bill, but only after it had been substantially rewritten under pressure from lobbyists for Government employees. The committee cut back the incentive program to a two-year experiment and limited it to three agencies, to be designated by the Administration. It proposed...
...less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...contract provided scheduled wage rises of about 10% over three years, 10% more in cost-of-living increases, and pushed the average pay of postal workers to a level of $7.58 an hour, vs. $5.62 for private nonfarm workers...
...deal will hold automatic wage increases to about the same level as under the old contract, but will tighten up considerably on cost-of-living payments, which are made automatically every six months as inflation goes up. Though consumer prices are rising at an alarming 11.4%, Administration officials are hopeful that the rate of increase wi now begin to ease as food prices start to decline, and that inflation will average 7% for the year as a whole. If so, the postal workers should get no more than 6.5% in total pay increases during the contract's first year...
North America. In response to severe criticism of U.S. energy profligacy, Carter made two important promises-to raise oil prices in the U.S. to world levels by 1980 and to reduce U.S. oil imports from a projected level of 11.5 million bbl. a day to 9 million bbl. by 1985. Congressional opposition to tax increases on oil will make that difficult. On the other hand, oil imports in this year's first half declined to 7.8 million bbl. a day-almost a 13% drop from the same period in 1977 -because conservation is working, and oil is arriving from...