The Nation - News from July 4, 1985
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger cleared the way for implementation of sweeping new rules for federal employees that would swap their existing seniority system for a performance-based rating. Burger, at the request of the Reagan Administration, lifted a lower court order preventing new rules adopted by the Office of Personnel Management from taking effect. They were originally scheduled to take effect Monday.
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