Word: waivers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...
...reason is an unusual mixture of efficiency and political naivete at the Commerce Department, where Secretary Robert Mosbacher did not ask Bush to sign a waiver until he knew there would not be enough nonpolitical applicants to fill 2,700 management jobs, which pay up to $18 an hour...
Senior Harvard hockey player Kevan Melrose, who was granted a one-semester extension of his collegiate athletic eligibility by the NCAA Wednesday, was awarded the extra term of eligibility in the form of an Olympic waiver, the NCAA announced yesterday...
...extension was not the first granted a Harvard athlete for an Olympic waiver--last winter Allen Bourbeau '87-'89 was given an extra full year for his time on the 1988 U.S. Olympic hockey team. Previously, rowers Andy Sudduth '85-'85 and Curt Pieckenhagen '84-'86 both received one-year extensions after competing with the Olympic crew teams...
...turns out, Harvard had it wrong. The waiver form is misleading. A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security said that that regulation only applies to adherents of Christian Science...