English civil-service reform and its admirable results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

Meanwhile, Labastida worked his way up the civil-service ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico's Never Seen A Race Like This] Reference

The civil-service umbrella union, ADEDY, is expecting at least 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greeks Protest New Austerity Measures] Reference

Professor Jowett, or "coaching" for a civil-service examination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

A civil-service commission that will handle a lot of these things.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Would Rather Fail And Be Honorable'] Reference

United States, in the civil-service act of January 16, 1883, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

More than anything else, the civil-service culture changed Chan's life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference

Congress, by my predecessor, to prepare and revise civil-service rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Many civil-service officers suffered head wounds from rocks and machetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Protest in Jakarta Turns Bloody] Reference

The problem is "the civil-service bureaucracy that is not performance-based.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Newark's $100 Million Question] Reference

As a means to this end, civil-service reform should be in good faith enforced.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

Service, a corps of engineers selected through competitive civil-service examinations.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Frank was aware of the civil-service types coming this way, and hurried through his story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kahawa]

Not a word did he say about the progress of education or civil-service reform in Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

The experience of the past few years with a partial application of civil-service rules to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

To compensate, it plans to reduce its civil-service work force by 15% over the next four years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miner's Provincial-Darling Status Could Complicate Deal] Reference

But Gates protected from dismissal by civil-service rules, defiantly denied a deal had been cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damned--But Defiant] Reference

In three successive messages to Congress I have called attention to the subject of "civil-service reform.".    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Since I am also a civil-service brat, I understand the conflicting pressures on government employees as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Having To Say You're Sorry.] Reference

(He tried to force Hosty to quit; Hosty refused and, protected by civil-service rules, retired in 1979 at 55.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Cover-Up] Reference

Just as union dues pay union employees 'salaries, taxes pay politicians' and civil-service employees 'salaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

A revision of the civil-service rules took effect on April 15 last, which has greatly improved their operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

The size of the civil-service establishment has been reduced by 18 percent since early 2000, to about 162,000 now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: An Existential Choice] Reference

One of his early ideas was to re-establish twice-a-day mail service to increase civil-service jobs for black males.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Problems Persist] Reference

But I have a feeling those of us the media may just give up and say: You know, we're going into civil-service work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Gore Campaign Asks Florida Supreme Court to Order Immediate Manual Recounts; Florida Legislature May Choose Electors - November 29, 2000] Reference

He earned a civil-service salary for his efforts and did not retire with much in way of pension or personal assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generation Kenya] Reference

Meanwhile, the GSEs, now in the private sector, could start cutting their salary scales toward civil-service levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closing Fannie Gradually] Reference

When he was in college, his dad encouraged him -- and his sister -- to take the civil-service test (she's now a detective).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heroes] Reference

The other true posterity issue is entitlements -- Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, veterans 'and civil-service benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should We Rehire This Man?] Reference

President, it will be seen that he never succumbed to conforming with the stale and set phrases of the civil-service documents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

During the year ended June 30 last 25,566 persons were appointed through competitive examinations under the civil-service rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Greece's public-sector umbrella union ADEDY called for the 24-hour strike to oppose cuts in civil-service salaries and entitlements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greece Strikes Continue] Reference

More recently, his union picketed the offices of three Democratic state senators thought to be in favor of cutting civil-service jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [State Union Leader Seeks National Stage] Reference

More than half of Barry's top political appointees may be protected by the civil-service system, making them virtually pink-slip-proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities On The Brink] Reference

At this time propositions of civil-service reform have not even the recognition, much less the comprehension, of the mass of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference

Its three major factions agree on civil-service reform, agricultural reform, and worker-protection changes, but disagree on foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly and Unloved] Reference

Mrs. Clinton described the anonymous unit that had auto-penned her signature as “a permanent civil-service entity within the White House.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's Our Senator? An Enigma Inside a First Lady] Reference

Local television news broadcasts showed footage of one protester beaten severely with batons by civil-service officers as the protester was being led away to emergency vehicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Protest in Jakarta Turns Bloody] Reference