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...altered Hermann's strength of character, Morton notes, describing her at Galliano's side in April after his closest collaborator, Stephen Robinson, died suddenly. "She was a rock," Morton says. "But that's Valerie. She is human as much as assertive, a good soul as much as a number cruncher...
...condition," he says. And he pauses for a long time. "I wear a lot of hats," he says. Back when he worked outside of government, with the local homeless and in the local community caf?, he might have expressed a personal opinion. But now, "I'm a government number cruncher." And the best numbers he has are the ones that describe how poor people behave, not how they feel: how often a parent skips a meal so a child has enough to eat, how often they can't afford to eat a balanced meal, how many ate less, lost weight...
...this week. Two prominent CBS newsmen who are members of the R.C.F.P. steering committee, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, voiced strong objections. The film, they charged, presents a distorted picture of the network's brass, particularly former CBS President Frank Stanton, who comes across as a shallow "numbers cruncher." Further, according to committee members, Rather argued that the R.C.F.P. should not lend its support to a movie produced by one broadcast organization (HBO is a subsidiary of Time Inc.) that appears to criticize a competitor...
...asked Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, "wouldn't you concede that the historic role of the Comptroller General is really that of an employee of the Legislative Branch?" No, indicated Ross, the Comptroller was simply a numbers cruncher, "a computator of statutory formulas." Justice William Rehnquist seemed skeptical. Harking back to his days as a Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration, he got a laugh from the courtroom by recalling that "if the Administration wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Attorney General. If Congress wanted a favorable opinion, it went to the Comptroller General...
While Stockman has no experience in corporate finance or security trading, his reputation as a workaholic numbers cruncher with an unsurpassed knowledge of Government financing was enough to satisfy his new employer. Said John Gutfreund, chief executive of Phibro-Salomon Inc.: "He's young, he's smart, there are new worlds for him to conquer." Before he joins the firm in November, Stockman has told friends, he plans to write a tell-all book. That could bring in an additional $1 million...