Departments like human services, defence and health receive 14 weeks of paid leave, in addition to the $11,500.
Federal revenues are swallowed up by debt servicing, defence spending and power subsidies, with no room for much-needed spending on health, education or welfare.
Dobson's research begins to collect for the first time totals for jobs shifted from the public sector to private companies, including jobs relating to inspection of nursery services, defence training, and IT support.
If anything he has become more influential, taking on not just Iraqi militias and the Taliban, but also a stubborn domestic foe: the "iron triangle" of armed services, defence industries and Congress that controls the Pentagon's gargantuan military-spending programmes.His 1996 autobiography, "From the Shadows", describes Mr Gates as "the ultimate insider".
Currency, postal services, defence and foreign policy will remain under the central government in Manila.
Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5 and Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons, become Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath for services to defence and parliamentary service respectively.
For services to Defence and for community service, particularly to Young People.
Francis Maude and Philip Hammond have brought useful reforms, to the civil service and defence procurement, but quietly.
The European Commission, the EU's civil service, sees defence firms as important providers of jobs and high-end manufacturing.
SOME old men keep in a half-forgotten file their medal, inscribed with bureaucratic precision: "For service in defence of the principles of the charter of the United Nations".
Of 85 EU security research contracts awarded to the end of 2008 – worth some €210m – 40 projects (47%) were led by companies that primarily service the defence sector.
