Word: recommendations
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...federal employees. But Congress has voted down raises four of the six years the law has been in effect. An added chance for raises comes every fourth year, when a nine-member Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries convenes to review salaries of high-level federal officials and recommend adjustments to the President, who takes them into account in drafting his budget message. Richard Nixon's 1973 proposal for a 7.5% judicial increase went nowhere, but Gerald Ford had more success in 1977, when Congress approved 30% raises for the bench (but only 14% for Supreme Court Justices...
Whatever the commission and President Carter may recommend, Congress is notoriously wary of voting federal pay increases, particularly at a time like this, with an anti-Government mood sweeping the nation. An additional obstacle on Capitol Hill is the reluctance to approve salaries higher than the $60,662.50 received by the Senators and Representatives themselves. Certainly nothing like the $97,000 figure urged by the A.B.A. is expected to pass. With this in mind, many judges have decided to contest the issue on their own turf and do their own umpiring. A group of them have sued the Government...
Masters ordinarily recommend their replacements to the Master Selection Committee, Fox said. If the board concurs, the nomination proceeds to the Corporation, he added...
...stunned by unenthusiasm. "It's impossible to determine which of these men would be the more capable President," concluded the Washington Post's David S. Broder. On the Sunday before the election, Columnist Joseph Kraft lamented: "My own mind is not made up. I would certainly not recommend either candidate to anybody." But such negative impartiality had another aspect...
Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, was unhappy when the senior members of her department decided last month not to recommend her for tenure. "I am deeply hurt by this unnecessary rejection," she said shortly thereafter...