Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to fire a single employee, a manager can spend anywhere from 25% to 50% of his working hours for a period ranging from six to 18 months at an estimated cost to the taxpayers of $100,000. To illustrate the process, Reorganizer Wellford has a 21-ft.-long chart in his office illustrating one Environmental Protection Agency official's 21-month effort to fire a $9,600-a-year stenographer. Various lines snaking through a maze of boxes and triangles denote all the required memos, warnings, suspensions and conferences. The official devoted so much time and effort...
What happened to the "spirit of Jerusalem"? Though U.S. Special Envoy Alfred ("Roy") Atherton resumed his shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Cairo last week, the peace process is essentially stalled. Both sides have made mistakes, but most dispassionate observers place the larger share of the blame on Israel and its doctrinaire Premier. Few of his countrymen would fault Begin for his aims or his principles, but a growing number disapprove of his tactics as a peacemaker, as TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff reported last week...
After months of self-imposed restraint, leaders of the Labor Party opposition have resumed open criticism of the government's policies in the belief that their attacks could hardly damage the peace process as much as Begin's tactics have done. "Begin's method of negotiating on the Sinai was a mistake," says Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "He didn't keep a fallback position. He started from the end, apparently forgetting that negotiations are supposed to result in each side giving something. What else did he expect to give?" Former Labor Premier Yitzhak Rabin makes virtually the same point...
...third mistake, continues Rabin, was in the process of the negotiations. "Every Israeli Premier since Ben-Gurion used to say that once an Arab leader would meet openly with the Premier of Israel, the conflict could be solved within minutes. Well, President Sadat came, sat, talked, and yet the miracle that was called direct negotiations did not work. But more than that, Begin decided to go to Washington to get President Carter's blessing for his peace plan even before he showed it to the Egyptians; this displayed Begin's obvious lack of confidence in direct negotiations...
There was nothing we could salvage out of it. It's been a steady building process. This wasn't the year I was pointing to but I feel the guys are a much better basketball team than at the same time last year...