Word: standardizing
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City Manager Robert W. Healy has said that the council proceeded according to a standard form used for pay increases for the last 20 to 30 years. Another council member remarked that debating the issue would have been a "waste of time." But while the public's time should not be wasted debating nickels and dimes, the council should have been more candid about subjecting this amendment to some level of public scrutiny. Nobody doubts that public officials should have salaries adjusted for inflation. But this particular salary hike yields a net increase, after adjusting for inflation, of roughly...
Regardless of whether such a pay increase is justifiable or not, supplying adequate information to the public about any increase--especially one as large as this one--is standard procedure. The kind of shameful semantic obfuscation employed by Healy and those six other council members who voted to shield this matter from an open hearing should be met with nothing less than public outrage...
...Elizabeth R. Kessler '02 says the perceptions do not come from the anxious void of student experience--though she says that she has not personally experienced teaching fellows avoiding the standard Harvard grading paradigm...
...herself in the midst of controversy. Feminists have recently criticized Mattel for yet again sending the wrong message to young American girls--that a woman must look like Barbie before she will be elected president. They have protested that President Barbie is another example of our society's double-standard: That a man is rewarded for intelligence and hard work, while a women is only allowed to achieve success if she fits our culture's standards of beauty. God forbid we have a frumpy woman president...
Should Giuliani, or any other politician, be held to a higher standard of conduct than the rest of us? Or a lower standard? And should the New York Times be held to a higher standard than the National Enquirer? If so, what would that higher standard dictate? Should the Times ignore the adultery of public figures? Or run it, briefly, on page...