Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invited to the White House, where officials praised his talents as an administrator. Most important, Vice President Walter Mondale was assigned the task of finding him another job. At midweek, the White House announced that Griffin had accepted a newly created $50,000-a-year appointment as a "senior assistant" to Robert Strauss, the President's Special Trade Representative and Counselor on inflation...
...most important concerns to the public servants was the proposed creation of a Senior Executive Service of 9,200 federal managers who could be transferred from one agency to another and who would be paid according to merit. Ruth Van Cleve, an Interior Department employee, expressed a common concern that such executives might be subjected to political pressure if they wanted to keep their jobs or get more money. Carter said SES membership would be voluntary; if its members were not happy in their posts, they could return to their old categories with full legal protection. Besides, the new program...
...president of United, the largest airline in the non-Communist world. "If anyone had told me last year that we would be up 21% in traffic so far this year, we would have straitjacketed him and locked him away." Now such a prescient person would probably be promoted to Senior Vice President for planning...
...bargain hunters are everywhere. Some companies have started to put junior executives on the cramped, cut-rate flights (while senior managers, complaining of the crush on commercial lines, are clamoring for the firm to buy more executive jets). The General Accounting Office, noting that the Government spends $470 million annually on airline tickets, has urged that the bureaucrats take the bargain flights...
...Senior Cyclers, who find new romance on the road. They included the Lapels, Ray, 68, and Hazel, 67, from Vail, Iowa, who took turns tromping a tricycle...