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...replaced with the smooth hum of expertise and that all the challenges our society faces can be solved by making the government run more efficiently has a long and generally laughable history. It is not inherently either liberal or conservative. President Dwight Eisenhower actually did hire McKinsey to redesign the presidency. President Jimmy Carter talked endlessly of "reinventing government." He took the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and turned it into two departments. Then there was Ross Perot, the presidential candidate who babbled about opening the hood of a car and tinkering with the innards. President Bill Clinton showed...
...Change for a Fiver I was interested in your account of the redesign of the $5 bill [Oct. 8]. But with all the good ideas that went into the makeover, nothing was done to aid the blind. Many countries print different-size notes or have a bit of Braille on each so that the blind can truly know what they are using. As more and more disabled move into the mainstream, it is up to us to make ordinary activities like bill recognition a reality for them. Eleanor Carter, Glendora, Calif...
Change for a Fiver I was interested in your account of the redesign of the $5 bill [Oct. 8]. But with all the good ideas that went into the makeover, nothing was done to aid the blind. Many countries print different-size notes or have a bit of Braille on each so that the blind can truly know what they are using. As more and more disabled move into the mainstream, it is up to us to make ordinary activities like bill recognition a reality for them. Eleanor Carter, GLENDORA, CALIF...
...Change for a Fiver I was interested in your account of the redesign of the U.S. $5 bill [Oct. 8]. But with all the good ideas that went into the makeover, nothing was done to aid the blind. Many countries print different-size notes or have a bit of Braille on each. As more and more disabled move into the mainstream, it is up to us to make ordinary activities like bill recognition a reality for them. Eleanor Carter, Glendora, California
OOPS The government had not been planning to redesign the $5 bill until crooks--who noticed that the watermark and security strip were very similar to those on the $100--started bleaching Abrahams and reprinting them as Benjamins...