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...employee cannot be fired, what about shifting him out of the department? A request for such a transfer must be submitted to the Civil Service Commission, where it often sinks out of sight. To get rid of incompetents, managers steer them to what are called "turkey farms," offices where nothing much is required and little damage can be done. The bureaucracy is studded with these farms, which a HUD analyst claims can be spotted on sight. "Just walk down the halls," he says. "You'll see lots of zombies...
...secret police, successively, the CHEKA, GPU, OGPU, GUCB/NKVD and MGB, the KGB'S forerunner. Today the agency has a force of 300,000 men under arms to guard Soviet borders, as well as a corps of customs agents. Intourist too works closely with the KGB; tourist guides can steer chosen visitors to restaurants that have hidden microphones...
...which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from the XXVII-course banquets that forced the Romans to repair to imperial latrines to vomit between dishes ?in which every succulent leaf and crumb has been thoughtfully purchased, planned and prepared...
...House and Senate versions. Some changes in the bill by the Senate were all but inevitable. For one thing, oil, gas, utility and other lobbyists who lost in the House are making a maximum effort to protect their interests. Also, the Administration lacks a forceful Senate champion who could steer the program through the upper chamber as Speaker Tip O'Neill did in the House. Russell Long, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and other powerful Senators have been critical of much of Carter's plan. Says one Senate staffer: "The energy program had a cheerleader in the House...
...fact, the vote was the result of a carefully orchestrated, six-year effort to steer the association away from its see-no-evil stance. Psychiatric Terror, a book by British Psychiatrist Sidney Bloch and British Political Scientist Peter Reddaway, which describes more than 200 cases of Soviet psychiatric abuses, was timed to appear just before the meeting. Thirty-four Soviet dissidents, including Nobel Peace Laureate Andrei Sakharov, signed an appeal to the gathering asking for condemnation of Soviet psychiatric abuse. A few of the dissidents showed up at the meeting, including former Leningrad Psychiatrist Marina Voikhanskaya, who marched...