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...effect of shoring up the crumbling old system rather than helping build a new one. Pouring money into an unreformed economic system without demanding radical changes as a condition is what you would do if you actually wanted to see that economy slip farther and farther into the morass...
...COMPUTER MORASS. The Weather Service finally replaced its main number- crunching supercomputer -- a clunky Control Data machine -- with a slick new Cray Y-MP last year, and has been upgrading the software for its radar and satellite stations. To speed the dissemination of data and forecasts between its central office in Camp Springs, Md., and weather stations around the country, it is building AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. However, AWIPS is already a year late. Meanwhile, a report by the National Research Council in May cast doubt on the ability of the NWS's small staff to manage...
...easy. You don't teach people ethics. I try to sensitize my students to be able to identify an ethical morass they are about to step into . before they step into it. I tell them, don't expect to get rich -- the public does not pay its servants a great deal of money. Go do this job because you want the government to run well and you think you can help it run well. And I say, if ever you decide you want to get rich, then get out of government, because if you don't, I'll visit...
...another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from the political morass resulting from a highly controversial Education Department ruling restricting college scholarships for minority students...
This deadlock of democracy transcends the budget morass and will not be broken with the November elections. The underlying question it raises is stark: Why is the nation unable to govern itself...