Word: omb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Palace West Palace (1996) plays at the Harvard Film Archive November 12th and 13th at 9pm. Zhang Yuan won the Silver Omb for best direction and best screenplay for East Palace West Palace at the 1996 Mar del Plata Film Festival...
...Everybody knows that air traffic controllers are helpless without their computers up and running; everybody also knows that when January 1, 2000 arrives, computers across the country could start going down like rosebuds in a hailstorm. In congressional hearings early last year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) roundly criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for its lack of progress towards a Y2K solution. To address the problem, the FAA and the OMB worked together to lay out an aggressive timetable...
Appointed OMB Director in 1996, Raines compared his office to that of the X-Wing commander in Star Wars navigating fighters towards the ship's small target...
...There is almost no conversation [at the OMB] that does not involve implicit negotiation. There is almost no idle chitchat," Raines said, describing the daily tensions of his office...
Raines will conclude his tenure at the OMB next month, but is a long way from leaving public service...