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Those grand findings should ring melodically in Ronald Reagan's politically attuned ears, for they totally conform to his views about runaway federal spending. Unfortunately for his Administration, they also contain jarring criticisms about how he is managing the Government. The conclusions are the work of a task force of 162 corporate executives* and their staffs, which toiled for 18 months turning out 2,300 pages on Government inefficiency. The group finished last week with the claim that it had pinpointed ways in which $424.4 billion can be saved in just the next three years...
...story of Winston Smith, a minor bureaucrat in the totalitarian state of Oceania. War with the world's two other superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, is constant, although the pattern of hostilities and alliances keeps changing. Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting old newspaper stories to conform to current Party ideology. He uses the official language, Newspeak, a version of English being pared down to make unorthodox opinions impossible to conceive. Privacy has vanished. Waking and sleeping, Smith and all Party members are observed by two-way telescreens; posters everywhere proclaim BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. Suddenly, Smith...
...Wolf, from Farley Mowat's best-selling autobiographical account, seems to beg for such treatment. A young biologist (Charles Marin Smith) dispatched by the Canadian government to the wilds of Alaska to monitor the depletion of Caribou herds at the fangs of wolves, finds that these predators don't conform at all to the fearsome image of snarling savagery--they're actually peace-loving, good-natured animals...
...outside audit in 1981 found the Medical School's cost accounting to conform very closely with federal standards...
...budgets of regulatory and enforcement agencies, placed officials unsympathetic to vigorous enforcement in charge of the agencies, and given his Office of Management and Budget a virtual veto power over rules proposed by the Government's departments and agencies. These moves have eased the pressure on industry to conform to regulations that the Administration has been unwilling or unable to change through legislation or Executive action...