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Many local officials blame federal bureaucrats for tying up assistance funds in spools of red tape. In Grants, Mayor Mitch Wells won approval 23 months ago for federal funds to buy land for three firehouses, and he is still waiting for the check. Complains Wells: "We're still dotting i's and crossing t's. They've changed the rules half a dozen times. It just doesn't work...
Costle cited bureaucratic red tape as hindering regulation efforts for both beneficial and toxic chemicals...
...some bar groups, the self-help message seems to be sinking in. In Chicago, Philadelphia and Kansas City residents can now call a bar-sponsored information line, listen to a tape on a subject like child custody or wills and at the end get a referral number if they want to retain a qualified practitioner. This seems a step in the right direction. But chances are that until attorneys boost their image and lower their fees, many callers will hang up before getting the referral number, and head for their bookstore instead...
...team co-captain Marc Chapus, who clicked into warp drive and came up with a new Harvard record of 48.5 seconds, the sprinters swept the event and left the Bruin contenders cleaning the cosmic dust out of their eyes. Sprinters Bennett Midlo and Kim Stevens arrived at the tape shortly after Chapus to claim the impressive times of 50.2 and 50.3 seconds, respectively...
...tape, Dixon coasted in with ease, with a two-and-one-half-second lead over the second-place finisher, and a 3:55.6 time. Lake dropped far back and did not place. Afterward, Lake, who many consider one of the East's premier runners, collapsed in exhaustion on the inside margin of the track...