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...statement released yesterday, Barringer said, "we feel that unpublished information gathered when reporting the news-be it notes, tape recordings, or photographs-is ours to keep confidential. To open such unpublished information to the scrutiny of outside agencies would, we feel, severely hamper the Daily's newsgathering ability. It would break down the relationship of trust between newsmakers and news-gatherers that is vital to accurate and complete reportage...
...freeze our economy? I could not agree with most of these objectives. We can start with selecting of certain industries that are essential to the basic economy of the U.S., and they must be protected in some way. Beyond that, I don't think that we should hamper the free flow of trade to the building in of rigidities that are likely to strangle...
Remembering his trips to Biafra in 1968, Dr. Mayer says, "There is invariably utter chaos in relief operations. Although a disaster strikes at least once every year, the relief organization in each case is dealing with tragedy for the first time. Political complications hamper American Red Cross operations, and the International Red Cross, which is a Swiss organization, is not equipped to provide massive aid. The Pakistani government," he says, "is the greatest ob-stacle to the East Pakistan relief operations. The United States, even if it wants to, can not send massive relief for political reasons. Reading between...
Hard Bargain. Merrill Lynch President Donald T. Regan reluctantly agreed to have the firm put up an immediate $15 million to save Goodbody. He said that Merrill Lynch had gone along because a Goodbody collapse "might hamper the orderly functioning of the nation's capital markets." Regan drove a hard bargain. Exchange officials had to agree to assess the 578 member firms a total of $30 million to guarantee Merrill Lynch against losses that it might suffer in taking over Good-body. At week's end, it was still uncertain whether Merrill Lynch will absorb Goodbody by itself...
...these benefits, the federal worker puts up with inflexible work rules that hamper his initiative and a rigid salary system that limits his ambition. The 15-grade scale, which covers the overwhelming bulk of white-collar civil servants, runs from G51 for messengers, who start at $4,125, to GS-15 for program managers, who begin at $22,885. A medical aide (GS-2) makes $4,125 to start, and a typist (GS-3) $5,212. There are virtually no merit increases, and the periodic raises within each category are small. It would take 18 years for a worker...