Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worker is turned down for a raise, he must be given a less than satisfactory rating for his work, a move that any supervisor contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...Carter Administration knows that it cannot get its plan through Congress without a bruising fight. It 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...
Neiman-Marcus, with its proved disdain for small change, is by no means the only luxury store to move into the Washington market. Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, all have opened one or more outlets in or near the capital; all have done well enough to tempt established stores such as Hecht's and Woodward & Lothrop to retreat from their old bargain-counter ways. Mercedes-Benz thinks well enough of the area to service it with five agencies...
...Israel," says Yitzhak Rabin, "has made too many mistakes, more than we can afford. The first mistake was in the method of negotiating with an Arab leader. One must make absolutely sure there is no misunderstanding, especially in private talks. Begin said Sadat promised that Egyptian forces would not move east of the Sinai passes. Later Begin admitted that this was in the context of Israeli forces withdrawing to the international border and the return of sovereignty over all the Sinai to Egypt. Still later it became clear that questions such as settlements and Israeli airbases were not mentioned...
...bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...