Word: leached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congressman James Leach may be the most hated man in Washington for his efforts to reduce bureaucracy [April 30], but the love from taxpayers in the hinterlands should more than compensate. At least one member of Congress got the voters' message last fall that it's time to eliminate Government waste and cut taxes...
...sophomore Republican Congressman from Iowa hog-tied Congress into passing two amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act, reducing Government employees by 29,000 and thereby bringing bureaucracy to a grinding halt. There should be more legislators like James Leach...
...cast the first vote for U.S. Congressman James Leach for President...
DIED. Bernard Leach, 92, artist-potter who brought the method of Japanese ceramics to the West; in St. Ives, England...
...eliminated 115,000 posts. Admits Alan Campbell, chief of the Office of Personnel Management: "The ceilings are creating some need for reshuffling and reassigning of employees, but people can live within the limits and still perform their functions." Bureaucrats also quail at the threat of having to leave Washington. Leach would like to rusticate Energy to Colorado, Agriculture to Iowa, coincidentally Leach's home state. Says he: "This would give bureaucrats the opportunity to live under the rules they write and see firsthand the too often counterproductive efforts of a well-meaning Uncle Sam." Could be. But there...