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...service fields the improvements are sometimes measurable, sometimes not--often both. Doug Kinzley, vice chairman of MGA Communications of Denver, figures that his advertising, public relations and marketing firm can put together a business proposal for a client in "maybe half the time it used to take" before the firm brought in a staff computer expert and installed individual computers for its 28 employees. That, he says, "gives us more thinking time. Our time is better spent on the actual work." The time saved is measurable, the benefits of proposing better-conceived ad campaigns to clients less...
Another problem is the endless updating of electronic technology, which makes many a computer supposedly obsolete just when its user has finally learned how to handle it. "I think the technology gets churned too frequently," says Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. "Every time we have to learn a new system, there is a decline in productivity...
...Henry Hyde was unveiled two weeks ago in a ceremony off limits to the press--and just as Hyde was facing the defining test of his 40 years in politics. More than 200 people--friends, family and constituents--applauded the presentation of the image: the hulking House Judiciary Committee chairman standing between his "Turkish" leather chair and a bust of Lincoln. The likeness hangs in the committee hearing room next to a portrait of Watergate legend Peter Rodino, the New Jersey Democrat who quieted doubters with his steady leadership during the Nixon impeachment proceedings. Now Hyde must pull off much...
...Last week they reversed themselves to let the Democrats review documents Starr did not submit to Congress; they gave the Democrats subpoena power and, in hopes of calming everyone's nerves, pledged to press Starr for some indication of what he has left to deliver. Said Henry Hyde, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "I am doing everything but one-armed pushups to be fair, and I would do those if I could...
...While the wiser strategy would have been to ignore Carville, the Republican high command took the bait, engaging in several days of name calling that once again focused attention on Gingrich and the question of whether the country's most unpopular elected official is calling the shots for Judiciary chairman Hyde...