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...President's men were too pressed for time to have reshaped the budget more dramatically. "All we could do was take a broad swipe at the document," said Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget...
...environment. The President was not moved. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, asked for more funds to expand a program of subsidized housing for the poor. She too was turned down. Says top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan: "Jimmy's just as fiscally conservative as Bert Lance-or worse...
Lance, a friend of Carter's for more than 10 years, served as Georgia highway commissioner when Carter was Governor. His country-boy manner masks a shrewd, tough mind. Says New York Republican Barber Conable, ranking minority member of the House Ways and Means Committee: "Bert does a lot of talking about being a country boy. You know that kind-when he shakes your hand, you had better count your fingers." Cabinet members who appealed to Carter to restore Lance's cuts in their budgets were rebuffed. Says Jordan, no pushover himself as a bureaucratic infighter...
...house in Georgetown. They get plenty of invitations, from the Averell Harrimans, the Smith Bagleys and other social heavyweights. But Lance has been unable to get away much and shows up only for state functions that he cannot avoid. Laments LaBelle: "We haven't had one party yet. Bert's just been so busy with that budget...
...shareholder, Jerry Fylonenko, said that car buyers he had talked to variously described A.M.C.'s squat, glassy Pacer as "a fish bowl, a candy machine or a pregnant roller skate." Overall, though, the mood of the meeting was less one of anger than of sad resignation. Said Shareholder Bert Sampson: "The stock is so far down now [4⅛ at last week's close] that there is no point selling it. We might as well stick around and see what happens...