European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes monday March 16.1987 feat nce triplets mis Mai non by William Safire 1 rail a source to gel Tome information. A Secretary answers who has orders hot to put a 4 or through without first learning his name and number and asking. What is this Call in reference 1o?" never the simple always in reference i Don t like to Tell other people what i am calling about nor do i Ike to let the targets on the other endow the Tine know in Advance what t am going to ask them about lest they prepare some innocuous response or shift me to some smooth tongued aide. So i always Tell the Secretary Tell him i want to speak with him about malfeasance in that usually gets a Call Back. On one occasion a Cabine member not easily intimidated by a pundit had his Deputy assistant amanuensis Call Back 10 Gay the Secretary wants to know whether you meant Majica Manceor misfeasance 1 had to work that out slowly. Fearnce in All its Brno usually has to do with official conduct action taken by those who hold Public office or some form of Public responsibility whether in government or not. Is Means badly wrongly but Mal is the French noun Tor obviously those who blithely say that a mis is As Good As a Mal do not understand the Gulf of difference Here. Misfeasance is a transgression perhaps inadvertent it is wrongdoing that May not be a crime. Misfeasance involves doing what one May do says Kevin Driscoll of the american bar association washing ton office but doing it incorrectly or illegally. For example if Here Are guidelines for a certain tonnage of waste allowed to be dumped and someone dumps More than the allowed amount out or ignorance or no with evil intent that would be what about the toxic creep who knows full Welt what the Law is and goes ahead and dumps a Tan or garlic in some Mountain Brook the executive of thai company which has a Public responsibility is engage Din malfeasance lawbreaking with evil intent and it is to the to Osgow with him. Now let s get to an example that offers More satisfaction abuse of Power by Public officials. The new York City landmarks commission issued warning against any proposal to redevelop the seedy Park behind the 42nd Street Public Library that might obscure the Back or the building. But they were com menting in Advance on a quasi judicial Mailer about to come before them the new York times promptly condemned such prejudging As a landmark of that was an accusation of recklessness thai raised questions about the fitness of the commission ers 10 serve but not an accusation of corruption. An official guilty of misfeasance should be tossed out on his or her ear but Only an official guilty of be tossed in the Jug. Irving Howe the editor of dissent Magazine and a frequent contributor to partisan review recently expressed anguish at the contretemps around the Latte Magazine s planned publication of an article by Michael a. Cd can. Who was one of the originators of the Reagan administration s arms for hostages dealings. Fell it was like finding out a Cousin was involved in Public malfeasance he said of the Sturm und Dragat or. Public malfeasance verge on the redundant supporters of president Reagan in he Iran arms affair say they Are Unwor ried by charges of misfeasance political partisans have been calling him unfit for years and Are also not worried about malfeasance because they think it unlikely that the president will be shown to be consciously breaking inc Taw he signed a finding that suspended a Law. What con cents them most is nonfeasance. Thai word is used half As often As misfeasance one thirteenth As often As malfeasance and Means not doing what you Are obligated 10 do tailing to act when your specific responsibility is to act. In civil Law a tort Case could be brought when nonfeasance i involved if failing to do something caused harm in criminal Law some states have Laws involving affirmative obligation Loaid strangers in peril according to the Vermont Rescue statute under some Circum stances a Fine May be imposed for nonfeasance if one does not Aid a stranger. Perhaps the Best known exam Ples of nonfeasance am taxpayers failures to file tax returns and landlords failures to make repairs to Recap misfeasance is doing something very badly malfeasance is abusing official office perhaps corruptly and Nott of Pasante is tailing to carry out one s responsibility. Set in Concrete when he needed criticism least Donald Regan was zapped by me for saying the whole seven Yards when the phrase he had in mind was the whole nine almost parenthetically. 1 added that the expression did not come from football or dressmaking but was derived from the contents of a fully loaded Cement truck. A Large Load of heavy material was deposited on my head from Many readers who lie in wait Tor writers to misuse the word Cement. Just As there Are no Cement sidewalks writes Edward b. Finkel a consulting Engineer from Elizabeth n j., there Are no Cement trucks Cement is an adhesive instructs Ernest n. Rod Bro of Tampa Fla., a student of semantics and is mixed with water and an aggregate of Sand and Stone to make Concrete. I am sure your intent was Concrete instead of com Rel since the cubic Content of a fully loaded Concrete thick is nine Cement is but one constituent of Concrete,1 Ham mered Home Herbert s. Safir of Coral cables Fla. The trucks you made reference to carry Concrete and Are called ready mix Concrete trucks or transit mix think it is Tine for engineers to Call Cement con Crete just As i think mathematicians have every rightly get red in the face at the Layman s misuse of Param eters. However the truck that Rolls through the City streets and makes grinding sounds is a Cement truck to most people. Never mind that it delivers Concrete nine Yards to a full Load. In this remain faithful to Norma a Oquendo the toy she promises her kid Tor his birthday is a Small Cement truck. On this my opinion is fixed in Concrete. Sun in Hsiao ,1 met my. 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