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Pryor and other critics charge that agencies often sign contracts for useless and overpriced studies, play favorites by hiring former Government staffers as consultants, and employ outsiders as full-time employees in order to get around hiring freezes. Most important, Pryor claims that agencies increasingly are allowing consultants to make important policy decisions. Says he: "It's a really scary situation. They [the consultants] are elected by no one and are accountable to no one." Among the examples of questionable practices and mismanagement detailed in the GAO report: - The Department of Health, Education and Welfare ordered a survey...
...cent or more. The result: "We wouldn't even have the money to pay our fixed costs--the interest on our debt, our MBTA and MDC assessments, the pensions." If all went as the backers of the referendum envision it, there would not be the money in Cambridge "to employ a single fireman or cop," Sullivan says...
...current revival, most arguments still employ the traditional definition of God as a unique personal creative entity...
...deals firmly yet succinctly with critics' worries. Of the department's 17,000 employees, 11,000 work in American schools overseas, she says. Most of the department's new employees are drawn from old bureaucracies, she adds, noting that, when it's all said and done, the department will employ fewer people than were employed in the programs it inherits. "It's not a huge sprawling bureaucracy at all," she insists...
...raising output by putting Americans back to work can begin. Programs to make the nation more energy-efficient are the best way in the long run to stop inflation, by improving productivity and lessening dependence on foreign oil. This entails efforts to revamp buildings, industry and transit which would employ many more people--and which would signal the end of bondage to outmoded economic ideas. President Carter can use his discipline on those, like the oil companies, who could use it, and give the rest of us a shot at the Puritan work ethic...