Word: recommendation
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WASHINGTON--President Bush intends to call for more stringent ethical rules on executive branch officials and recommend a 25 percent pay raise for federal judges in a sweeping ethics-in-government program to be unveiled today, administration officials said yesterday...
...these officials said Bush has decided for the time being against recommending any hike in the $89,500 salary received by members of Congress, and will recommend no change in the widely criticized system that permits lawmakers to earn thousands of dollars in speaking fees...
...commission that Bush set up to recommend changes for an ethics overhaul had called for a ban on honoraria to members of Congress for speaking engagements or similar work. Such honoraria provide thousands of dollars in outside income for senators and representatives in a system that critics, including Bush's ethics panel, contend allows for too much special interest influence on the representatives...
...frequently held private weekend seminars with experts on the subject, and he chose card- carrying Kremlinologists for the top two jobs on the National Security Council staff. One of the first documents Bush signed as President was an order to the Executive Branch to reassess relations and recommend a strategy that looks ahead to the next century. The review is supposed to be an American answer to Gorbachev's "new thinking." Yet to meet that challenge, the study may have to work its way free of attitudes and assumptions that could make fresh initiatives difficult...
...week from today, about 2000 high school seniors will receive the coveted thick envelope and be offered spots in the Harvard-Radcliffe class of 1993. Unfortunately, many of these 2000, and the 10,000 unsuccessful applicants, will have agonized on an exercise that has pathetically little to recommend it--the Scholastic Aptitude Test...