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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'...
The 141-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...
For 16 years, Florida protected alligators from hunters as an endangered species. The reptiles have multiplied mightily, increasing their numbers to an estimated half a million today. But the state's human population also has been expanding rapidly, and contractors have been filling in swamps and marshes for real...
Many of Zaïre's problems, such as the general incompetence of the government, stem from the fact that the country was so grossly unprepared for the independence it was suddenly granted by the Belgians in 1960. But other problems, as for example the rampant corruption at every...
To some American viewers, that no longer seems such a wild exaggeration. They have been filling the air with complaints that auto and property insurers, though they usually pay off if pressed, often turn around and penalize claimants by canceling policies, refusing to renew them, or raising premiums so high...