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 \nNoon,ThursdayRose Room,Sberaton Palace Hotel  \nHas the American Dream turned into anightmare?An Alameda County court hasordered ComputerLand founder WilliamMillard to hand over 20 percent ofComputerLand's stock to pay a nine-yearold,$250,000 debt,and pay $125 millionin punitive damages to settle a contract dis-pute.Barbara Millard believes that thecourt's decision against her father will havebroad implications for American industry.  \nComputerLand is a $1.4 billion opera-tion with 800 franchised stores which em-ploy 15,000 people in 24 countries.Canthis success continue if the Millard familyloses control of the company?  \nTickets—$14 for members,$18 forguests.Tickets should be picked up inadvance.See back page for advance ticketinformation.  \nCOMING EVENTS:  \nmember how to repair them.  \n# The Problem ofBig Government\n\nThere are 332 incompatible accountingsystems in the government,and 319 differ-ent payroll systems.Even if the computerswere working,you couldn't get what youneed.  \nJ.Peter Grace  \nThe“Grace Commission”  \nChairman,The Grace Commission(The President's Private Sector Surveyon Cost Control)  \nWe brought 2000 people in to do thesurvey,and it cost $76 million.We raisedthe money ourselves—all the governmentgave us was information.We came out with  \nChairman and Chief Executive Officer,WR.Grace and Co.  \n2,478 ways to save $424.4 billion overthree years.  \nShirley Cohelan Burton  \nJ.Peter Gnace  \nWe issued 21,000 pages of reports and  \nF R I DAY M A R CH 22  \nties of the federal employees in California.  \n1.5 million pages of backup material.Ifanyone wants to challenge the accuracy ofour findings,they're welcome to do so.  \nIN FEBRUARY 1982 I was asked by Pres-ident Reagan to search out inefficiency,waste,and abuse in the federalgovernment.  \nMassive Inefficiency  \nI said:“There are 2.75 million federalemployees.Their payroll is $62 billion,andyou don't reserve for their pensions,whichis anocher 82 percent of their payroll.Thetotal cost to the taxpayer is $i12 billion ayearIf you can't tell me where they areand what they're doing,I'll have to havemy first press conference!\"  \nWhen we turned in the report,the Sen-ate Budget Committee told us we had donea remarkable job for the nation,and theywanted to give it to the Congressional Bud-get Ofice and the General Accounting Of-fice to study.  \nI met wich President Reagan in Los An-geles a short time later.He ","cbCaiqpeVEJh4bfG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqpeVEJh4bfG","pdf",2945822,"English","# The Problem of Big Government\n## The Grace Commission\n## Massive Inefficiency\n## Pensions and Purchasing\n## Commonwealth","[{\"question\":\"What is the main message of “The Problem of Big Government” in the document?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that government inefficiency stems from incompatible accounting and payroll systems, making it impossible to know what the government needs and where resources are going.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is associated with the “Grace Commission” mentioned in the document?\",\"answer\":\"The document attributes the Grace Commission’s chair role to J. 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