Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger that the negotiations will founder on petty details. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt has assured Heath that he will press for a speedy decision. French President Georges Pompidou recently intimated that he will confer directly with Heath if the negotiators are unable to cut their way through the maze of issues. Pompidou has said that he favors British admission, but there is some suspicion that the French once more are seeking to find an issue on which to block British admission, as they have done twice before...
...detailed spending proposals to get their funds. The proposals must then be shuffled in Washington by as many as 24 different officials. In some programs, administrative costs eat up 500 of every dollar spent. The upshot is that comprehensive planning vanishes as states get mired in the federal maze...
...painful environmental battle. Bulldozers had hardly begun carving the roads for a resort community-called Incline Village-on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe before conservationists denounced the company for contaminating the lake with silt and creating ugly scars in the alpine forest. As the company went through a maze of government agencies to win permission to build 3,000 homes, it met furious opposition at every point; so far, the company has been able to build only ten homes and four condominiums. Though other developers were almost entirely responsible for despoiling the fragile terrain at Incline Village, a conservation...
...Congratulations are in order for your excellent article on "The Welfare Maze" [Feb. 8]. However, I would like to reply to some of the critics of President Nixon's Family Assistance Program (FAP) who say it is not enough or is insufficient in its incentives to get people off of wel fare. What they overlook is the principle involved in FAP. For the first time in American history, the Government is preparing to offer a federally guaranteed income. Once this principle is established as law, all Americans will be entitled to an ensured basic income (and security). After passage...
There are other flashes of crisp satire in this collection of essays. In a modern version of the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas, the king's good intentions get lost in a bureaucratic maze. When Parkinson analyzes beards through history and finds them to be a sure indicator of lack of civilization (a thicket behind which older men could hide their uncertainties), he is at his bluff best. But the crotchety professor can also be dull. His strident common sense often sounds simply pompous; and his habit of describing imaginary conversations seems contrived. Parkinson's biggest problem...