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...five district rangers at Ochoco National Forest in Oregon spend as much ! time hacking through red tape as they do overseeing the 1 million acres of timber. They have to juggle 53 separate budgets, including one for fence construction and another for fence maintenance, divided into 577 management codes and 1,769 accounting lines. Each ranger spends about 30 workdays a year just tracking the spending in the various accounts...
Lower taxes, lower salaries, affordable housing and less red tape also showed companies on both coasts, and especially in high-cost California, that they could operate less expensively in the Rockies. That has given the mountain states a leg up in the interregional competition popularly known as "smokestack chasing." Companies discovered that even after factoring in transportation costs, basing themselves inland could be advantageous. This spring Rio Rancho, New Mexico, used a $114 million tax-incentive package to lure Intel into expanding its local semiconductor plant. The deal was the largest private investment in a U.S. city by a single...
...prize catches, mostly in the Albuquerque area, are companies ranging from a Hawk missile facility and an Olympus camera plant to a J.C. Penney telemarketing center. The state, which has a budget surplus of $100 million, can afford to offer generous tax incentives, and it assiduously cuts red tape. When Great American Stock relocated to Rio Rancho two months ago, it obtained a building permit in 11 days at a cost of $2,200; a comparable permit in San Diego, the company says, might have taken 18 months and cost $40,000 to process...
...feared he was an Egyptian intelligence agent pursuing an agenda that was not Washington's. They recruited him as a full- time informer only after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center, when they desperately needed someone inside an Islamic radical group. Then he annoyed them by tape recording conversations with his FBI contacts as well as with alleged terrorists. One federal agent calls Salem "a pain...
...well done. He always feels that he screwed up. In fact, in all the years I knew him, I never once heard him say he thought something went pretty well. The most he ever gives himself is remarks like, 'Well, I guess that stuck to the tape...