Word: staff
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Although it is far too early for an accounting, the White House realizes that Carter's campaign promises will be re-examined in light of his actions. His staff has drawn up a 111-page list of those promises for his reference. He is fulfilling many of them-creating a welfare-reform plan, drafting an energy policy, tackling Government reorganization. But Carter has at least hedged on some of the other campaign pledges. In spite of his previous opposition to the construction of B-1 bombers, he has yet to announce he will halt the program inherited from Gerald...
...Ugandan army for ten years. More important, he fought with the British in Burma during World War II and in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion (which he described as "the finest physical training a footballer could have"), and for five years he was the chief of staff of Uganda's armed forces...
John Osman, the British Broadcasting Corporation's East African staff correspondent, was one of the few Western newsmen in Kampala last week. Returning to Nairobi, Osman cabled this report to TIME...
...that there is all that much staff work to be done. At 9:30 a.m. every morning, the chiefs gather around a large rectangular table where they discuss union matters until noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner...
...Even the experts on the Ways and Means staff admitted that the proposal could lead to "job churning"-the conversion of full-time jobs to part-time jobs in order to collect more tax write-offs. Ullman conceded that a firm might be able to hire a worker at $4,200 for six months, replace him with a new worker at the same wage and pick up $1,680 credit for each...