Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crank calls have mounted over the years. Bums relishes the time a White House operator, caught in heavy telephone crossfire, hooked two crank calls together so the angry citizens could rail at each other. One man called during Eisenhower's Administration and said he was HEW Secretary Arthur Flemming and wanted to talk to the President. Mary sensed something was wrong. She stalled, got Arthur Flemming and learned the caller was an impostor...
...recommends holding HEW'S spending to some $195 billion next year. That would be an 8% rise and has brought a strong protest from HEW Secretary Joseph Califano about cuts in or alterations to 115 separate items in his thick spending request...
Unfortunately, budget trimming by OMB seems small when weighed against the remorseless growth of federal expenditures that are mandated by law. Such "entitlement programs" as Social Security. Medicare and federal pensions account for nearly two-thirds of the budget, and in HEW they claim 89c of every dollar. Social Security alone costs $104 billion. Unless the growth of benefits is slowed, the whole Social Security system?as well as the budget?will be in deep trouble. Says Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office: "If you're really concerned about the growth in Government, then you have...
Officials of Harvard Internal Audit office, who are working with HEW on the audit, were not available for comment yesterday...
...approximately the same time, April, 1977, Dr. Cohen filed a lawsuit against Harvard, the dean of the School of Public Health, and Dr. Stare. "I think the suit precipated the subsequent HEW audit," Cohen said last night. "It was a long time in coming," he added...