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...told how Lavelle had wept while they hastily removed whole briefcases of sensitive documents. Yet for all the melodrama, the accusations seemed almost irrelevant, an old story relegated to the back pages. Since the scandal climaxed last spring with the firing or resignation of the EPA's top echelon, the agency has been seemingly transformed into a model of probity...
...this camp is Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security policy. He has had more impact on the substance of U.S. policy in INF and START than any other official in the U.S. Government, an achievement that is all the more remarkable since he holds a third-echelon job. Part of his success is that he is as personally charming, intellectually brilliant, bureaucratically masterful and politically well connected as he is ideologically unyielding. He was for years Senator Henry Jackson's top assistant and the leading congressional staffer in the campaign against SALT. He maintains close ties...
...officials not caught in the crossfire of charges about sweetheart deals, political manipulation, conflict of interest and mismanagement. Some of his colleagues caustically pointed out that he could credit his clean slate at least in part to his exclusion from the agency's decision-making echelon. "He was lucky to get invited to meetings," said a former EPA official...
Applicants to the class of 1987 will be divided into three categories, said Provost W. Keith Kennedy. Students in the top echelon, who are otherwise eligible for financial aid, will have to contribute a minimum of 4,400 to their education, while those in the middle level will have to pay at least $4,150, and those deemed least attractive will be charged $5,230 or more...
...habit: he was unwilling to take responsibility for his actions, in both his professional and his private life. Last week Okada's personal flamboyance and his involvement in a series of embarrassing scandals caught up with him, in a manner that stunned his colleagues and shocked the upper echelon of the Japanese business community. He was fired...