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Attorney General Edwin Meese is reported to be firmly opposed to Bowen's idea, and so is James Miller III, head of the Office of Management and Budget. "We have the standard reservation against more Government programs," says an OMB aide. "Let the private sector do it. Also, parts of the Bowen plan rely on new tax incentives. We have just closed major loopholes in tax reform, and now here come some new loopholes." To Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, Bowen's plan is "inconsistent with the Administration's policies to restrain the growth...
...change in order to cut out what they viewed as very large overhead costs reported by universities. "After all, the original purpose of the set percentage was to reduce the huge and growing amount of overhead costs," said Edwin Dale, assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
...more likely they're trying to find money to reduce the deficit wherever they can," Shattuck said of the decision by the OMB. He added that the government will save about $100 million. "It's a small amount, but I think for them it's also a matter of principle," Shattuck said...
...made plenty of concessions already," Dale said in response to Harvard concerns that it might losemoney. The OMB planned last June to giveuniversities only 3 percent of grants for overheadcosts but compromised with the 3.6 percent rebate,Dale said...
...every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller III. "If I had a bias, it would be toward air safety." Unfortunately, that bias has yet to be translated into equipment that might make the nation's crowded "birdcages" safer...