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...figures big in it, passing programs for the President to administer, refusing to change them or kill them when they falter. Still, there is room for presidential action in almost every area of administration. Ford has the power to cut personnel in the major departments, and he promised to pare those agencies. Yet, in his time in office, ten out of the eleven departments have grown larger. A lot of successful administrators could tell him that if he means business about conquering Big Government, he will have to come out from behind the microphone and grapple with the problem himself...
LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before their source...
...million deficit from New York's budget. To avoid further antagonizing the potent union chiefs, the beleaguered mayor at first gave only scanty details. Explained an aide: "We wanted to come in without the sledgehammer." But under intense pressure from the board and Carey, Beame bitterly proposed to pare $200.7 million from next year's budget. By one estimate, that would require trimming an additional 8,000 city employees, including 3,000 school workers, and freezing all pay until 1978. Moreover, Beame said, similar reductions of workers would have to be made in each of the following...
Mayor Frank L. Rizzo is squeezed between a state law requiring a balanced budget and his own determination not to raise taxes or pare services. On paper, this year's budget is within 5% of balancing, but only because of some highly questionable revenue calculations. For example, the budget writers included $65 million in aid that has not yet been appropriated by Congress or the state legislature. City Controller William G. Klenk, a Rizzo opponent, claims that Philadelphia has been using "illusory accounting techniques." He estimates that last year's deficit was actually $82 million; other critics predict...
Levin said that Rosovsky had simply run out of areas to pare down and how to resort to locking out the scholars...