They belong to a separate civil service system that gives them higher pensions.

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An outmoded civil service system, we weren't getting enough people in that we needed with the high tech requirements that the future was going to bring us.

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Well, PAEA directs that CSRS (civil service retirement system) and FERS (federal employee retirement system) be funded at 100%.

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The fact that these nations were British colonies is also an advantage in that they inherited a similar civil service, political system, a judicial system and the English language, features that would make the integration easier than the union of Europe.

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The vanguard of efforts to change basic values could be reforms of the civil service and the education system.

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The states are ceding many blocking powers, but in return for new ones from the federal level, particularly in higher education, the penal system and civil-service law.

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The middle class expanded fast thanks to jobs in state-owned companies, the public education system and the bloated civil service.

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Since the creation of a professionalised civil service in the 20th century, however, the system has certainly become a good deal more meritocratic.

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They propose a smaller parliament and civil service, a new electoral law, a better system of tax collection and measures to stimulate the economy.

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Yes, the civil service is based, in theory, on the merit system.

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