Word: paperworkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LONGTIME BUREAUcrat, Mark Silverman knows the usual rules of the game: cover your flanks, avoid making decisions, bury all problems under layers of paperwork. As the manager of the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant, though, Silverman also knows he's sitting on a time bomb. Until production was stopped in 1989, the plant--just 16 miles from downtown Denver, Colorado--manufactured plutonium components for the nation's nuclear weapons. Enough radioactive waste remains on the premises to cover a football field to a depth...
...going along with it. Regulators have met with the Rocky Flats management team to rewrite and simplify the cumbersome rules, and the DOE has approved Silverman's plan to further cut the facility's 4,878-person work force. Admits Assistant Energy Secretary Thomas Grumbly: "We have created a paperwork jungle over the past 50 years...
...selling Realtor in America this year. By the end of October, the almost pathologically can-do salesman from Warren, Michigan, had sold more than 500 homes, priced on average at $115,000. He did it with the help of two car phones, a swarm of assistants to do the paperwork, and countless fridge magnets, flyers and referrals. Other techniques are less orthodox--and, alas, less tasteful. He sends out letters to people who are in foreclosure or going through a divorce. He lends buyers money. But most of all, he just loves to sell and sell and sell. His record...
...There have been a few study abroad directors [in my years here], and they have tried to keep continuity, but you still have to keep on top of the paperwork yourself," Chimene I. R. Keitner '96 says...
Although it is necessary to file paperwork specifying a student's intended coursework, the administration allows for change and students say they appreciate this flexibility...