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...Most of the disputes were settled by a panel consisting of Stockman and top White House aides. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, for example, was able to save more than $50 million in export and trade assistance programs. Other disputes, unresolved, went to the President. He decided that Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's $2.2 billion job-training budget would be trimmed by only $400 million, rather than the $ 1.2 billion Stockman had proposed...
...When Raymond J. Donovan was confirmed as Secretary of Labor by the Senate last February, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch called his nomination "one of the most rigorously scrutinized in our country's history." Perhaps so, but the information given to Hatch's Labor and Human Resources Committee by the FBI and the Justice Department is turning out to be curiously incomplete. Indeed, the Justice Department last week opened a new investigation into old charges that Donovan was present when officers of the New Jersey construction company that he partly owned allegedly paid a bribe to a union leader...
...Raymond Donovan, 51, is one of the Cabinet's weakest players, even in the eyes of the White House. "No comment," said a presidential aide when asked about the Labor Secretary. Added a Hill staffer: "He is simply out of his league. He combines not much knowledge of the issues with not much skill in politics...
Paresky refused to comment on the case last week. His lawyer, Raymond King, said at the hearing, "Crimson Travel did not add a sign but replaced one already there with a larger sign more in scale with a larger building...
...that paragraph are the seeds and the secrets of a career. With only seven novels, Raymond Chandler became one of the most influential writers in American literature, and literature is what he wrote. This selective volume of his correspondence is a revelation of that singular, conflicted talent. Who touches this book touches a detective...