Word: abramson
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...best lessons Robinson learned, he said, came from the 1987 mayors' conference when Mayor Jerry Abramson of Louisville, Ky., told him about "Mayor's night in, mayor's night out." This technique involves scheduling times for citizens to come to City Hall and for the mayor to go out into the community on a regular basis...
...When Abramson was a newly elected mayor and attending the conference, he said the best advice he got was that the most important member of his staff--and the person he had to select most carefully--was his appointment scheduler, because this would be the person deciding how he handled his time...
...procurement officials, for example, would have been forbidden to make any contact with their former agency for up to two years. "Unfortunately, there aren't many monks qualified as nuclear engineers who want to become an Assistant Secretary," says Chase Untermeyer, director of the office of presidential personnel. Mark Abramson, director of the Center for Excellence in Government, says top jobs are going begging because of "low pay, anxiety over postemployment restrictions and the feeling that high Government service is life in a fishbowl...
...Larry Abramson...
Tourists looking for a quiet vacation are becoming nervous about a Hawaiian retreat. Says Paul Abramson, who owns a Manhattan travel agency and recently visited Waikiki: "Tourist guides warned that we should go out at night only in pairs and that ladies should hold on to their handbags. I think a lot of people come home afraid." Complains Peggy Ontai, who sells conch shells at a roadside stand on Oahu: "This crime has to stop. Tourists are too frightened to drive around the island and get out of their cars." Travel agents report that greater numbers of vacationers are opting...