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Government aid to U.S. colleges and universities-mostly student loans, research grants and special-program funds-now totals an impressive $15 billion a year. Yet more and more educators, administrators and trustees are biting the hand that feeds them. Their complaints range from excessive paperwork to inflexible regulations. But the one that is voiced most emphatically concerns Washington's growing influence over higher education. Says Robert Durkee of the Association of American Universities: "We may be nearing a point where the Government will be making decisions that universities should be making...
President Bok has joined a recently formed committee which is trying to reduce the annoyances of excessive paperwork caused by the federal government...
...Moscow as requested on Feb. 1 and 2,1972, and asked for the reason for the delay in sending the weapons which the Soviet leaders had promised me. Brezhnev said he was personally to blame. It was due, he said, to the necessary paperwork, the inevitable red tape, and similar things. "I am not convinced of that," I said...
...about as much substance. No one can possibly keep up with all the pronouncements affecting him and his business or profession, and many people have given up trying. Each national Administration has promised to cut the paper burden, only to end up adding to it. The Commission on Federal Paperwork, created in 1974 to figure out how to control red tape, estimates that the Government cranks out enough documents every year to fill 51 major league baseball stadiums or eleven new Washington Monuments. "It's unbelievable," says a former commission member. "Washington is the source of so much red tape...
...taking over the group of 60 bazaars upon Michael's death in 1907, imported from the U.S. the concept that better working conditions make workers happier and more efficient. The company trusts junior saleswomen to restock their own counters as necessary. Indeed, the company tries to cut out paperwork wherever possible. It employs no buyers as such, but-buying British where possible and often taking more than 50% of a factory's output-goes directly to 550 suppliers. Though some suppliers moan that the company strangles them, they know that M & S's quality controls make their...