Word: reaganized
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After the crackle and roar of the Reagan Administration's $2.4 trillion military buildup, defense spending is in a steady decline. The Pentagon budget is still staggering in size -- more than a quarter of annual federal outlays. But in fiscal 1990, for the fifth year in a row, defense spending will grow at a slower rate than inflation. Adjusted for inflation, the $295 billion spending request that Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has submitted for 1990 is 15% smaller than the 1985 budget...
Though he achieved the rank of minister-counselor, the department's third highest career level, Bloch is said to have been disappointed by his failure to become a full ambassador. He boasted to friends that he virtually ran the Vienna embassy under former Ambassador Helene von Damm, a Reagan appointee he regarded with scorn. Bloch got on the wrong side of Von Damm's successor, Ronald Lauder, who sent him packing. Colleagues praise Bloch's work in Washington, though some describe him as dull ("A boring little man," says one). He has been placed on leave and his security passes...
...White House, George Bush must be finding that task very pleasant indeed. A study by Government Executive magazine, a journal serving public officials, found that of Bush's first 37 ambassadorial nominations, 70% have been political appointees rather than career Foreign Service officers. That compares with 59% for Ronald Reagan at the same point in his first term and 42% for Jimmy Carter...
Many Senators are openly predicting the defeat of at least one nominee: Frederick Bush, Ambassador-designate to Luxembourg. No relation to the President, Bush served as the Vice President's deputy chief of staff in the Reagan Administration. He has been accused of using his connections to garner some $600,000 in HUD-related consulting fees. In an appearance last month before a House subcommittee, Bush recanted earlier sworn testimony in which he claimed that he barely knew the former HUD officials suspected of handing out federal housing contracts to well-connected Republicans. "I would guess it might...
...Bush Administration last week acknowledged the economy's weakened position when it predicted growth of only 2.7% for the year, down from the Reagan Administration's five-month-old projection of 3.5%. The White House forecasters, looking through the rose-colored glasses favored by most Administration economists, calculate a growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson...