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Roger L. Sperry

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Geographic Information Spans Borders

May 1, 1999 eographic information systems have offered the seductive promise of linking up all sorts of information now maintained in stovepiped systems. Rapid technological advances offer equally enticing opportunities for combining and giving the public access to spatial data; fostering cooperation among agencies, levels of government and the private sector; and reducing ...

Gold Rush

March 1, 1998 s soon as President Clinton announced earlier this year that he would submit a balanced budget for fiscal 1999, lawmakers and administration officials began talking of spending expected future surpluses on health care initiatives, new roads, tax cuts, and paying down the national debt. But if leaders of federal agencies ...

Reinvention: An Assessment

November 1, 1996 he Clinton Administration's three-and-a-half year effort to reform government management has seen Vice President Gore devote countless hours to his National Performance Review. Laws reforming procurement, information technology management and performance measurement have been passed. Federal workers have pushed the limits of reform in "reinvention laboratories." Now, as a new ...

Diplomatic Disorder

July 1, 1996 July 1996 FOREIGN AFFAIRS Diplomatic Disorder The urge to merge America's international agencies is forcing them to look for ways to work together like never before. ere is the dilemma facing America's foreign affairs agencies: On one side is Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who ...

Saving Energy

January 1, 1996 n the tumultuous first act of the Republican revolution, Congress may have featured its balanced-budget drive in the center ring, but a major sideshow was the freshmen-led effort to shrink government by eliminating four Cabinet departments. The annals of government reorganization will record only that the Commerce Department was seriously ...