Word: paperworkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strategy, then scaled the proposed taxes back to just a levy on cigarettes. Clinton fashioned the plan to curry the support of large insurance companies, hospitals, unions and a fearful middle class. Remarkably, however, his early vision of paying for reform mostly by controlling costs and reducing paperwork remains the proposal's central feature. This is the inside story of Clinton's revolutionary plan, a wonky, made-from-scratch idea that endured despite the efforts of nearly everyone, including its own creators, to second-guess it to death...
...hear the one about the clerk who needed a full week to fill out all the papers to comply with the requirements of the government's latest initiative, the Paperwork Reduction...
...trees. The first two are gags that were probably old when Vice President Al Gore's father Albert Sr. was first elected to the Senate in 1952. Their antiquity indicates how deeply entrenched are the habits of bureaucratic bumbling, and the immense force of inertia that sustains them. The paperwork story was presented as fact by a Treasury Department worker sounding off at one of the "town-hall" meetings the Vice President has been holding with federal employees. It points to the failure of previous attempts to carry out the job President Clinton has given Gore: streamlining the bloated federal...
...stirred up a lot of nervousness. "We're getting calls from ! parents whose adoptions were in place a long time ago," says Susan Freivalds, executive director of Adoptive Families of America, a support group based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They say they've always "felt kind of funny" about their paperwork. Was the birth mother lying when she said she couldn't locate the father? Why did she refuse to name him? "This is a frightening issue for adoptive parents," says Freivalds. "How can you be sure you've done everything right...
...often though, Sydney Pollack, whose swank and care energized the Redford thriller Three Days of the Condor in 1975, surrenders to genre goofiness, setting up bad guys who are omnipotent at the start and impotent at the end. Like a complex lawsuit, the movie gets buried in paperwork; there's too much walking and talking. (See Tom think. See Tom brood. See Tom make photocopies. See Tom amble across his living room -- in slow motion.) And at the end, too much running and gunning. Maybe every thriller demands a chase, but a clever thriller deserves a better one. On that...