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...Executive Branch in brainpower for evaluating federal spending proposals. Only a few Senators and Representatives have acquired much proficiency in economics, and the Administration can overwhelm them with spending and revenue estimates prepared by the Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisers-in all, an apparatus of some 700 people. This year the imbalance has been lessened by the new Congressional Budget Office and its articulate, politically liberal director, Economist Alice Mitchell Rivlin...
...interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when the Bolsheviks established their own supremacy thirty years later, they adopted the police apparatus that had shadowed their childhood. "Systems remain the same," Pipes said. "Only the personalities tone down...
...Knows Apparatus...
Kiely, a professor of English, announced Besserman's appointment yesterday, and cited Besserman's close association with the House and his familiarity with Harvard's administrative apparatus. Kiely said he expects Besserman to be "an outstanding senior tutor...
...College has become a big apparatus for certifying a student's relative worth for medical schools, law schools, employers," Lewontin says. "My attitude is that that's their problem. I'm not going to allow them to ruin my teaching--they've managed to foist off on the universities a certification process which screws up teaching...