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May 6, 1997
NIH Kicks Off Quality of Work Life Week
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Getting Down to Business NIH Administrative Operations Under Review By Carla Garnett
In an age when government agencies face increased budget scrutiny
every year, and taxpayer purse strings are drawn tighter with each
round, it was only a matter of time before NIH would have to
reassess its fitness for battle. And although the agency has in many
ways already reinvented the way it does business and clearly has
been among the blessed at budget season, test time has come: NIH
is in the middle of a thorough review of its administrative structure
and costs and the results will be used by Congress to help decide
the agency's appropriation.
Art and Life By Rich McManus There are probably more people at NIH who know Art Fried without all of his clothes on than there are who know him fully clad.
Budget officer at NICHD for the past 20 years, he is a ubiquitous
noontime -- and later -- jogger, a perpetual treasurer of NIH's
Health's Angels Running Club ("my other permanent job"), and
virtual poster boy for middle age athleticism. Trim as an 18-year-old
rower, easygoing and affable, he's a campus fixture in any season in
jogging shorts and T-shirt: Hey, how come he's always out there
schmoozing with some female running partner while the rest of us
are bustling, unaccompanied, to some tedious meeting? What's this
guy's secret? |