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possible to hire a consulting firm to do the job.
MCNEAR AND PETE LUKE of Rappahannock, however, liked the prospect of hiring a consultant. For one thing, such a person wouldn’t require the hiring of still another secretary, and he wouldn’t need office space. A commissioner from Orange also worried that at the end of the year’s study, it might be necessary to “find a place’’for the staff addition.
Keene Byrd—a classic modern bureaucrat, glib, mod haircut and stretch suit—made the case for another bureaucrat in a little talk sprinkled liberally with bureaucratic cliches. He was full of concern about District 9 getting “its fair share” of federal grant boodles, and by having their own man, this would be easier, he insisted. “Skill areas,” he talked about;
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