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...time to fill it because of all the initials required at the bottom of countless memos. The average time that elapses between requesting that a job be filled and actually getting the employee is 58.6 working days. The more important the position, the longer the delay: three months for low-level managers, six months for intermediate, almost a year at the top level. By the time an administrator has his own team in place, he may be on the way out himself. Seasoned bureaucrats know how to outwait and outfox a politically appointed boss, no matter how zealous or resolute...
...George B. Hutchison '43, professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, said yesterday, "It is necessary to ascertain whether the effects of low-level exposure cause cancer...
...press campaign in the East tried to discredit the manifesto as a "malicious concoction" of West German intelligence. Initially some Communist-propaganda experts in Bonn had suspected the document's authenticity. Now, however, there is agreement that the manifesto was composed by a small group of dissidents and low-level party members in the East...
...question is not one of timing or foot-dragging. It is one of an impression of overall responsiveness--of whether there will actually some day be a comprehensive, well-thought-out framework for proposals on low-income housing construction (preferably low-level), public transportation, municipal bond underwriting, redlining, crime-fighting, etc. Carter's "let's work with what we have" attitude, combined with his reuqirement for rebuilding the cities--that it not come at the expense of a balanced budget and strong defense--does not bode well for those issues or the future of the nation's cities in general...
...Ribicoff committee was not letting up on Lance. It released an affidavit from Michael Patriarca, a low-level attorney on the staff of the Comptroller of the Currency, which belatedly contradicted assertions by Lance that he lad never asked anyone in the Comptroller's office to lift sanctions against the Calhoun bank so his record would be cleaner as he faced confirmation hearings. Patriarca claimed that last Nov. 22 Lance had asked Donald Tarleton, the Atlanta regional director for the Comptroller, to do just that. (Tarleton had also denied any such overture by Lance.) Clearly, the assault on Lance...