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We recognize that the government of tomorrow must be leaner, that it must eliminate bureaucracy and multiple management layers, that agencies must respect future fiscal and budgetary realities, and that they must be performancedriven and resultsoriented organizations.
But why those effects are being felt now, how long they will last, how much of productivity growth is being driven by businesses running leaner than they once did: These questions don't have firm answers.
How uninspired is the surgical selfishness of leaner noses and plumper bosoms.
Seasons of plenty alternate with leaner periods when the people prepare to “mend and make do. ”
Objectors to the plan, which Clinton first articulated in May, also say that the government shouldn't bleed the unemployment trust, which people may need in years leaner than these.