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...battle against red tape...
...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 have done away with enough forms to trim the nation's paper shuffling by 9.9%-a cut of more than 85 million hours, equivalent to, say, a year's work by 50,000 people...
Naomi James, 29, a native of New Zealand, made the voyage in 272 days aboard the Express Crusader, accompanied by her kitten Boris and a stack of Rod Stewart tape recordings. Upon hearing about her feat, Explorer Tristan Jones, who has circumnavigated the globe three times, urged club officials to wire congratulations to James. When they refused, he huffily withdrew his application for membership and denounced the members as "bloody old fogies who've gone around the world once in a steamer...
...administered from its huge Washington headquarters, Social Security data are processed in a building outside Baltimore by the most extensive computer system in the world. Every day an average of 20,000 claims are filed; every night the complete Social Security wage file, contained on 220,000 reels of tape, is run through the computers to provide information on the claimants. Next day off go the forms that bring life-sustaining checks to the nation's aged and disabled...
...controversial NIH proposal is the issue of greater autonomy for local biohazards committees. NIH's new proposals would allow these groups to grant preliminary approval for research, allowing the researcher to begin his experiments, with a review by NIH to follow. Talbot said this provision would eliminate bureaucratic red tape and frustrating delays for scientists. Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, supported Talbot's contentions earlier this spring when he testified against a state bill that would have imposed more restrictions on research...