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...budget, which has nearly tripled in that time. So far businessmen give her good marks for intentions, lesser ones for accomplishment. Says James D. McKevitt, Washington counsel for the National Federation of Independent Business: "Talking a good game is one thing, but getting those bureaucrats at the bottom to implement it is something else. They often wall off the most well-intentioned administrator. They have the traffic-cop attitude. They just like the power of giving tickets...
...brain that governs this capacity governs the degree of eye roll." Spiegel has also found that eye roll is connected to personality. The low scorers ("zeros" and "ones") tend to stress thinking over feeling and are wary, critical folk who love to control people and implement plans. The highly hypnotizable "fours" and "fives" generally feel rather than think. Though they can be very creative, they uncritically accept ideas, trends and leaders, and are strikingly childlike and gullible-in short, wide-eyed...
...have lately become aware of a movement by a student lobby group, the Public Interest Research Group, to establish a chapter at Harvard through a petition drive. As I understand it, one aim of the drive is to procure a student majority 'mandate' to implement a 'negative checkoff' funding mechanism for the organization through each student's University term bill...
...Duke estimates it would cost $1 million to make every building on its hilly campus accessible. Says Frederick Ford, executive vice president and treasurer of Purdue: "HEW writes hundreds of pages of regulations and in very fine print. The question is: How in the world can you realistically implement them...
Arthur Fitzhugh, an agent in the University police's crime prevention unit, said yesterday that the police and Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, are considering the proposals, but have not yet decided whether to implement them...