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Finally, the plan would encourage decentralization by permitting more decision making at the regional or agency level. Wayne Granquist, an official in the Office of Management and Budget who helped devise the plan, likes to cite the example of the forest ranger who is sent into the woods of Oregon for a wildlife census. Since he is in what is called a remote area, he is entitled to an extra $12 a week. But this modest increase in pay must be approved all the way up the line from district to regional to national headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service...
...regulations in plain English drew 800 participants, most of them Government employees. "Five years ago," said Legal Consultant James Minor, a member of the American Bar Association's committee on legal drafting, "we could have offered solid-gold Cadillacs as door prizes and not attracted 25 people." Wayne Granquist, a Carter appointee in the Office of Management and Budget, called attention to the plight of citizens confronted with bad writing. Until recently, applicants for a Citizens Band radio license were advised: "Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, applications, amendments thereto, and related statements of fact required...
...Wayne Granquist and Stanley Morris at the Office of Management and Budget are guiding Carter's campaign. They drafted the presidential proclamation. In a few weeks they will present Carter with a final draft of an Executive order to all federal agencies and departments...
...secret right-wing group that called itself St. Michael's Order. The day the first installment appeared Michanek received an anonymous letter suggesting that there was much more information to be had about St. Michael's. The mysterious tipster turned out to be a Swedish Jew, Goran Granquist, 25, who had wormed his way into the order and wanted to tell all. He proceeded to give the pair of reporters enough tantalizing leads to start them on a two-month job of night-and-day sleuthing...
...that it might be an "unfunny practical joke." But it was no laughing matter to the government. While admitting that the Nazi peril had been exaggerated by Expressen, the government nevertheless charged Lundahl with "armed threat against lawful order," an offense that could jail him for ten years. Meanwhile Granquist, for fear of his life, fled to Israel, where the newspapers were giving the story almost as big a play as the Swedish press...