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...This pace will not abate, only increase," thememo continues. "Despite the best efforts toimprove efficiency, HASCS is a ship taking onwater faster than it can bail...
Although Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles indicated recently that funding to the group will be increased, in January the service's outgoing acting director, Richard S. Steen, characterized HASCS as "a ship taking on water faster than it can bail...
...pioneer among the new pragmatists is Philadelphia mayor Edward Rendell, 50, a moderate Democrat. "No more whining that we don't get enough money from state capitals and from Washington," says the former prosecutor. "No more looking for the cavalry to bail us out." When he took the reins in 1992, Philadelphia carried a $200 million deficit and municipal bonds with junk- level ratings. Its citizenry, meanwhile, was financially anemic from 19 tax increases in 11 years. Fifteen months later, Rendell had engineered the city's first surplus since 1987 without a tax boost...
...director will be charged withreinvigorating HASCS, which has been plagued bystaff and space shortages, budgetary constraintsand poor working conditions. A confidentialmemorandum written earlier this year by RichardSteen called HASCS "a ship taking on water fasterthan it can bail...
...University has been notified numerous times of the desperate needs. The most recent wake-up call was a January memo to the members of the FAS committee on information technology. In that memo, Director Richard S. Steen called HASCS "a ship taking on water faster than it can bail out." He argued that the failure of the University to provide the needed resources was being reflected in low morale...