Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy was not providing an easy target as he started his own maneuvering last week. Edging closer to a formal candidacy by accepting a White House offer of Secret Service protection,* he gave a series of interviews that sounded a more centrist tone than usual. He insisted he did not want to spend any more money than the President, though he would spend it differently: less for defense, more for domestic social programs. He said he would remove both the new aircraft carrier and the MX missile from the fiscal 1980 budget. Though he remained committed to his national health...
...directly, get the credit personally, and avoid the bureaucratic dispute or inertia that he found so distasteful. In May 1971, the Secretary of State did not know of the negotiations in White House-Kremlin channels that led to the breakthrough in the SALT talks until 72 hours before a formal announcement. In July 1971, Rogers was told of my secret trip to China only after I was already on the way. In April 1972, my trip to Moscow was opposed by Rogers when he was told at the last minute...
...Soviet summit never developed the uniform texture of the one in Peking; it was more random and jagged. The discussions between Nixon and the Soviet leaders lacked a central theme. On the whole what emerged were formal expressions of standard positions not significantly different from the written exchanges that had gone back and forth through the Channel...
University officials normally raise large amounts towards a campaign's goal before its formal announcement--as of last spring the figure for this drive already exceeded $25 million. Officials use this advance figure as some indication of the drive's chances, and so far they have been encouraged...
...Food and Drug Administration isn't much better. A Congressional panel remarks that the FDA's formal rulemaking procedures "are complex, cumbersome, and time-consuming." As a result, the FDA usually relies on informal "action levels" if a chemical is present at levels above a certain level, the contaminated food can be seized. The action levels, however, can be set with little or no public input and little or no supporting scientific evidence. The result: possible dangerous levels of chemicals may be passing through the FDA's regulatory machinery with the FDA's blessing...