Word: panels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With three days of workshops, panel discussions and speeches--including one tonight at the Kennedy School of Government--the week's planners are hoping to concentrate more on how students can actively combat racism, and not just recognize where it exists...
...critics dismissed it as a face-saving device. After all, Bradley had just narrowly won re-election after a campaign that centered on his alleged ethical lapses -- including his serving as a paid adviser to two banks that did business with the city. But last week the seven- member panel proved it was no rubber stamp. It proposed a code of conduct for city employees and elected officials that may be the most stringent in the country...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...
...panel urged creation of an independent watchdog agency with the power to impose civil fines of up to $5,000, or as much as three times the amount involved in a violation. Keeping city officials aboveboard will not be cheap. The additional personnel, office space for housing the mountain of new disclosure forms, matching public campaign funds and mandatory ethics training for every city department are expected to cost between $2 million and $4 million a year...
...West German leader suggested that jointconsultative committees with East Germany becreated at some point, including a jointparliamantary panel...