TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
Tidbits and Outrages The Future Is Now I A diligent Sun Francisco Chronicle correspondent found the following in the revised state code of the Division of Consumer Services Department of...
...As was the case of Honda’s superior pollution control system, Nissan has moved ahead of the giant U. S. auto companies who said it couldn’t be done...
...tract, can’t run a railroad can’t stop dumping theii garbage in their own life’s air...
...and the singular includes Strange Bedfellows A constant theme of The Washington Monthly has been that one of the principal roots of national evil has been people’s pervasive fear of losing the phony jobs they hold in the great corporate and government bureaucracies...
...Tidbits and Outrages The Future Is Now I A diligent Sun Francisco Chronicle correspondent found the following in the revised state code of the Division of Consumer Services Department of Consumer Affairs: Tenses, Gender, and Number: For the purpose of the rules and regulations contained in this chapter, the present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present...
...We hear it and think of the Seabees in World War 11...
...Plumbing Comes to Louisiana From our old friend, the Commerce Business Daily, a list of U. S. government procurement invitations and contract awards: -I-Y-CONSTRUCTION OF LUSH TOILETS AND BATH HOUSES at Caney Lake Recreation Area-Project site located at Caney Lake approximately 5 miles north of Minden, LA via LA hwy 159, Webster Parish, LA-IFB R8-6-7240-Bid Opening 5 Jun 72...
...A 50-mph :rash into a fixed barrier is equivalent to a car crashing into a similar standing Gar at 100 mph...
...Capitalized Capitol We have often observed that many of the failures of government spring from the gap that separates the responsible bureaucrat in Washington from the problems out there in the country with which he and his bureacratic unit are supposed to be dealing...
...the masculine gender includes the feminine, and the feminine, the masculine...
...The impossible took a little longer...
...The estimated price range for work to be contracted is $85,000 - $135,000...
...The difficult they did immediately...
...The answer is provided by this illustration from a Civil Sewice Journal (Jan.-March, 1973) article entitled “The Developing Role of Career Managers...
...There were can-do guys in those days, and there used to be can-do guys in Detroit, too...
...That our efforts are not as successful as we might wish is indicated by a recent Gallup poll which shows that the number of persons opposed to the idea of a federal law banning featherbedding has risen by 40 per cent since 1962...
...Russell Baker comnented: What a falling off is this...
...But Washington accounts for 27 per cent of the nation’s GS-13 workers, 60 per cent of the GS-15 workers, and so on up the scale...
...Nowadays we have can’t-do guys...
...As of 197 1, about 11 per cent of all GS4 employees and 13 per cent of the GS-9 employees worked in Washington...
...The Illustrated Bureaucrat We’re sure many of our readers who have dealt with government have wondered exactly what is inside the bureaucrat’s brain...
...P133) U. S. Forest Service, 2500 Shreveport Highway Pineville, LA 71360 Bring Back the Seabees Ralph Nader recently noted that Japan’s Nissan Motor Company had designed a 2,200-pound prohction model car (with air bag) which could take a 5 0-mph frontal barrier :rash and permit its occupants to survive...
...Crashes xcurring at this speed 0: less are responsible for 90 per cent of all traffic fatalities...
...America was full of can-do guys not so long ago...
...Bid documents and specifications will be furnished prospective bidders upon written request...
...Remember...
...We are indebted to the Washington Star-News for more facts that help explain the gap: The higher the grade level of a federal employee, the more likely it is that he works in Washington...
...Washington is perpetually filled with them, all looking for a government handout, or a backdoor appointment at the Justice Department, all leaning on the Congress and Pentagon and White House while their superb lobbying machines boas1 that they can’t build ar airplane, can’t fulfill a con...
Vol. 5 • June 1973 • No. 4
