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...Lance has liberally delegated authority, unlike his predecessor, James Lynn, who pored over every budget detail. Lance has turned most of the day-to-day supervision over to Deputy Director James Mclntyre, who served as Georgia's budget director under Carter. Says Lance: "I don't want to make any decisions someone else can make. I'll wait and deal with the tough ones." Informal, he sometimes answers his own telephone. Says he: "I'll talk to anyone. It's important for me to be accessible...
...early shift of eight hours, took a two-hour nap in the late afternoon, then stepped into a cold shower that pummeled him back to consciousness, after which he worked eight more hours. Richard Nixon by that measure was rather lazy, but he was so intimidated by his predecessor that his staff strove frantically to cover up the time he spent resting or brooding...
...entire process. The statements' discussion of the impact of the cruise missile ran just two sentences; the B-1 bomber was given a short paragraph explaining that the number of bombers planned for procurement fit neatly under the ceilings negotiated at Vladivostok. The ACDA, under Warnke's predecessor Fred Ikle, politely acquiesced in the Pentagon's legalistic abortion of Congressional intent...
Like its Socialist predecessor, the new coalition government of Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin is fully committed to the welfare state. That means keeping unemployment at its present low rate of 1.5%, even if employers must pay workers who show up only sporadically. Volvo has pioneered new ideas to keep workers interested, including a novel assembly line that allows employees to set their own pace (TIME, Sept. 16, 1974). That has cut absenteeism in a new plant outside Kalmar to 15%-still high by almost any standards outside Sweden. Even shutting down is no answer; on each of the days that...
...blame. The problem is having to get emotional about the monarchy at all." History seems to support Grigson's point. Most Laureates have found the muse reluctant to lower herself for mere royalty. At the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, C. Day Lewis, Betjeman's predecessor, had to make do with "You princely babe, you pretty dear/ For you we bring/ The birthday honors of the quickening year." He could have done worse. When the future Edward VII lay ill at the turn of the century, Laureate Alfred Austin wrote: "Along the wires the electric message came...