Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...
...further: workers in such traditionally male jobs as trucker and accountant, for example, would no longer make 30% to 40% more than holders of traditionally female jobs like secretary and nurse. Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton and other opponents argue that comparable worth laws would involve the Government in a morass of subjective judgments about salary considerations best left to the free market; Democratic Representative Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio, a proponent, dismisses these objections as "hysterical responses (that) detract from a reasoned public debate of sex-based wage discrimination." The draft report concludes that enforcing comparable worth laws would require...
With about 27,000 employees in a building spread over 29 acres, the Pentagon is often a managerial morass. The Defense Department signs more than 50 million contracts a year and spends some $800 million a day. Complicating matters is the rivalry among the armed services for money, material and men. Last week a group of military experts at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies released a report calling for a restructuring of the Pentagon...
...employee fails, that is okay too. Failure, says Pinchot, should be regarded as a learning experience and must be permitted within firms. He writes that large companies are good at coming up with sound ideas, but they are generally poor at carrying them out because of a "morass of analysis, approvals and politics...
...damages for the guerrillas' activities. The case will still have to be argued, but the court's decision to grant the Sandinistas a hearing ended what some U.S. officials considered to be Washington's last real hope of extricating itself from a potentially damaging public relations morass...