Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miller, director of the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief: "The question is how to achieve legitimate goals at the lowest possible cost. Regulations cost a lot, and these costs are passed on to the consumer." Consumer activists, however, feel that the Administration, in its letting-go zeal, is jettisoning important regulations that are the only way to protect the buyer in the marketplace, the worker on the job and the citizen at home. Says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, executive director of the consumer lobbying group Public Citizen: "They want to take us back to the 19th century...
...problems began in 1978, when Congress, anxious to display its inflation-fighting zeal, put a cap on salaries paid to career bureaucrats. The unforeseen result: 6,000 senior managers now earn the same amount as some 30,000 subordinates who reached the limit by annual cost of living increases. Unless the ceiling is lifted, within two years 135,000 federal employees will be bunched together at the top scale. Says Acting Comptroller General Milton J. Socolar: "This situation is absurd...
Many hospitals are redoubling efforts to recruit new nurses and keep the ones they already have. Through newspaper advertisements and job fairs, institutions hawk themselves with the zeal and in genuity of used-car salesmen. At Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, nurses willing to work nights for six months get a $1,200 bonus plus an extra week of vacation. At Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, nurses on the night shift can take a leased car in lieu of a pay differential. In apartment-tight New York City, Beth Israel Med ical Center...
...some critics have grave doubts that that will occur. One of them is Brookings' Pechman, who says that the cut, together with all the other goodies tossed into the package, will only increase the federal budget deficit without contributing to increased productivity. Says Pechman: "The zeal to cut taxes is so great that they [Congressmen] don't pay attention to the deficits." Among businessmen there seems to be a consensus that the first small returns from the cut will be spent and not saved: they will, after all, appear in paychecks some time before Christmas, and some retailers...
...about to be abandoned by its friends, especially the U.S. Yet there was a growing international feeling that the embattled nation must try harder to make an accommodation with its Arab neighbors if it is ever to enjoy the true security that it has pursued with such zeal for so long. ?By George Russell. Reported by David Aikman/Jerusalem and William Stewart/Baghdad, with other bureaus