Word: staff
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...looks more like a wheel," says Powell, "with Carter at the hub, the various departments as spokes and his personal staff around the rim, making contact with the entire circle and keeping people informed." How this will work, given Carter's intention to be a "strong, aggressive" President and his record of making decisions on his own, remains to be seen...
...congressional approval?to reduce the size of the 485-person White House staff and to disband superfluous advisory commissions...
...There's no doubt in my mind that Fritz Mondale will play a major role in governing. He'll be my chief staff person, and his office will be near mine in the White House. He ought to get the same CIA briefings, the same foreign affairs dispatches that I look at, and he'll be a constant adviser to me and constant partner with me in making decisions...
Shrinking Process. Byrne began a series of cuts that, he says, have left him "very, very sobered by my realization of the awesome costs we had to pay." He fired more than 1,500 employees, reducing the staff to fewer than 6,400, and closed 23 sales offices. Those moves have reduced expenses 20%; Byrne vows to cut them further by 10%. Byrne has also secured, state by state, permission for premium-rate increases averaging 38%. Further, the company, which once operated in 25 states, has stopped servicing unprofitable areas. GEICO pulled out of New Jersey, which once accounted...
...receiving the vision, Presbyterian Bright became a lay evangelist at U.C.L.A. He concentrated on gaining converts who would influence other students-athletes, political activists, beauty queens. His Campus Crusade spread quickly to other U.S. universities (currently 426) and beyond. Its slogan became "Today the campus, tomorrow the world." The staff now numbers 5,300, of whom 1,100 are foreign nationals working in their own countries (84 of them). Among recent staff recruits is Ralph Drollinger, a 7-ft. 2-in. basketball center from U.C.L.A., who passed up pro bids to join the crusade's Athletes in Action...