Word: setups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the new streamlined setup, the duties of science adviser will fall to H. Guyford Stever, director of the National Science Foundation. On policy matters, he will consult with Treasury Secretary George Shultz, the Administration's new economic czar; on money requests, he will go to Roy Ash, head of the Office of Management and Budget. An aeronautical engineer and former president of Carnegie-Mellon University who once was an M.I.T. faculty colleague of Shultz's, Stever is convinced that he will always get an adequate hearing from his new bosses. "I might have to jog a little...
Ninety-three per cent of the women said they had not been well informed about the differences between the Yard and Radcliffe when they sent in their room preference forms. They suggested that the differences in sex ratio and physical setup be made clearer to incoming freshmen in the future...
...point of the change is to bridge the gap between the White House and the bureaucracy. The Counsellors will have a foot in each establishment -doubtless a stretching experience. Supposedly, the new setup will permit the President to cut back his Executive Office staff from 4,216 to a little over 2,000-the number that existed when he took office. He will then have to deal with fewer people, as he prefers. When he gives an order, it will glide more swiftly down the chain of command...
...setup confers enormous power on the COLC's Dunlop. He has frank contempt for "magic numbers"; he once called the idea that all wage boosts should conform to a single numerical standard "hogwash." He prefers to weigh each case individually and relies on head-knocking by private negotiation rather than fiat by issuing orders...
...come in, I laugh at the seats. I laugh at the ushers. The house lights dim, I laugh at the darkness. I laugh at the sets and costumes. By the time I hear the lines I'm already weak, a total setup for your gags...