Word: goldsmith
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Distrust of all levels of government is behind the national move toward privatization of public services. The pacesetter may be Indianapolis, Indiana, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, who refers to taxpayers as customers and boasts that all public employees can break through the bureaucracy by sending him E-mail. (He scrolls through about 400 messages a day.) Since taking office in 1992, Goldsmith, 48, claims to have saved $115 million by privatizing more than 50 city services, from golf-course maintenance to window washing...
...safer streets and the wooing of business through lower taxes. Managers rather than politicians, they apply private-sector solutions to chronic urban woes and switch over to the technocratic jargon without pause. Such savants include Bret Schundler of Jersey City, New Jersey, Frank Jordan of San Francisco, and Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis, Indiana, the so-called Prince of Privatization, who refers to his citizens as "customers." Goldsmith believes in "marketizing" his city -- making every sector of it more competitive. He adds, "We have to ratchet down costs as much as possible...
Koppel, the anchor and editorial manager of ABC's "Nightline," was presented with the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...Goldsmith also stressed the distinctiveness of the restaurant's atmosphere, which originally sought to "cater to the lifestyles" of former attorneys and co-founders Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax...
...When they founded the first restaurant [in 1985], Rick wanted a place where he could bring his kids and not have to make reservations weeks in advance," Goldsmith said. "And John was single, so he wanted a counter where he could watch the food being made, with no impediments...