Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision would make no difference in the effort to achieve hiring and promotion goals. "My reading of the decision," she said, "is that we are not compelled to do anything differently from the way we've done things in the past, and we are not going to." Many businesses report that EEOC officials pressure them to hire additional women and members of minority groups but do not mention specific numbers. This means the companies have to estimate what numbers will satisfy the bureaucrats who administer the law. "It's like saying, 'Wrong, guess again,' " observes an industrial relations official...
Last week, however, the bureaucracy said there was some good news. The time that Americans spend in filling out forms is actually not increasing, as many people think, but just the opposite. So said the Office of Management and Budget in its first report to Congress on President Carter's effort to cut paper work...
...page OMB report offered some impressive figures. It said that Americans now spend 785 million hours a year filling out federal forms. The paper work annually costs the nation $100 billion-about $500 for every citizen. But, it went on, reductions in Government red tape since January 1977 have done away with enough forms to trim the nation's paper shuffling by 9.9%-a cut of more than 85 million hours, equivalent to, say, a year's work by 50,000 people...
Just how did the OMB arrive at these figures? Director James Mclntyre admitted to the subcommittee that the report was based on a combination of guesswork and the honor system. Said he: "We all have to rely on information from Government agencies." Retorted Chiles: "The IRS has to rely on the information it gets from people too, but the process is greatly helped along because we know it does audits...
...explosion sounded like a belated, booming finale to the fireworks display at the Palace of Versailles. Thus, when an agitated watchman telephoned the local police station one night last week, the flics at first assumed that his report of a bomb blast was just another complaint by an angry Versailles resident about the racket over at the chateau. Earlier that evening, 50,000 people had trekked out to the magnificent 17th century palace-home of France's royal court until the revolution of 1789-for a fireworks festival celebrating the arrival of summer. While Roman candles and rockets cannonaded...