Word: merit
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...there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic pay increases just by remaining on the job. Additional raises are supposed to be based on merit; if so, the Federal Government is extraordinarily meritorious. In 1977 only 600 people were denied a merit raise out of the million who were eligible. The repeated raises have brought federal employees to high levels, ranging from a stenographer's $9,600 to an assistant department head...
...should not have much trouble replacing the Civil Service Commission, which can be accomplished by the President as long as the move is not vetoed by Congress within 60 days. But it will run into heavy flak from the Hill on the questions of veterans' preference and merit pay, which require legislation. Every major veterans' group in the nation can be counted on to mobilize against the change. The Government employees' unions will put up sim ilar resistance to the merit-pay proposal. As a tradeoff, they will demand a collective bargaining clause, which could lead...
...largest corporations, with interests going beyond the publications. Time is part of the even larger Time-Life Inc., a publishing empire of international proportions. In each case, the company's financial viability rests on the sum profitability of its enterprises, not simply the relative success, failure, or intrinsic merit of the publication. The company naturally comes to view its publication in more profit-oriented terms, to the detriment of editorial standards. The extent to which commercial motives influence contents varies from publication to publication. A prime offender is Time, once devoted to politics and the arts, which over the years...
...established rules of the game led to a cover-up that transformed the local case into a national headliner. He became suspect to the charge of possible collusion to obstruct justice. All because he lied. He had promised in the campaign to select attorneys on the basis of merit, not politics. Once in Washington, however, he found the promise too hard to keep; he owed too many favors. In Philadelphia it was the Rizzocrats who had helped him defeat Gerald Ford. It was the Rizzocrats who Marston had been chasing throughout his term. Carter was forced to play politics...
...Attorney General Bell have crossed the Rubicon as far as Marston is concerned, but the new U.S. Attorney "of merit" in Philadelphia had better follow through on the investigations of local politicians now serving in Congress...