"patronage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But he vows that his drive will be no fleeting thing and will be aimed not at earlier patronage hirings but at corrupt, undisciplined and lazy officers.
- It would establish modern, professional management of non-legislative affairs, along with sensible curbs on patronage hiring.
- Aug. 5: Joseph DeVincenzo, the head of the Mayor's Talent Bank, is indicted on charges that he lied to a grand jury about the extent to which the office was used for patronage hiring.
- The board has now been replaced by state trustees, who are facing a long, gritty trench war against the effects of years of patronage hiring, bad contract negotiations and bureaucratic intransigence.
- PGW then implemented senior citizens discounts, generous municipal labor contracts and the expansion of patronage hiring.
- That is because officials there entered a consent agreement in 1973 that bans firing for political reasons, and signed another agreement in 1983 that bans patronage hiring, except for policy positions.
- In particular, the association is recommending changes to the lifetime tenure system that was started in 1909 to discourage patronage hiring.
- Thus, more than in the past, patronage hirings are likely to fuel governmental growth.
- In July 2005, a federal court-appointed monitor reported widespread abuses of a previous court decree against patronage hiring.
- The staff exposed the existence of a secret court bank account, widespread patronage hiring and the use of court employees for private business.
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