While these disputes and a desire for further evaluation of AWS programs prevented permanent authorization. of the 1978 law, Congress agreed to amend the law and allow another three-year experiment.18 The Federal. Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act of 1982 allowed agencies to review and terminate.
About this species. Blackthorn is a shrub belonging to the same genus (Prunus) as almond, cherry and plum trees. The specific epithet spinosa refers to the sharp spines or thorns that are characteristic of this plant.
From the conspicuous blackness of its rind at the time of flowering, the tree is named Blackthorn, and the spell of harsh unkindly cold weather which prevails about then goes by the name of blackthorn winter.. The term Sloe, or Sla, means not the fruit but the hard trunk, being. connected with a verb signifying to slay, or strike, probably because the wood of this tree was used as a flail, and nowadays makes a bludgeon.