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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Speed-Reading at Interior

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26...amp;th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Excerpt:

Americans are clearly concerned about these new proposals: the agency received 300,000 comments. Last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service, presumably at the behest of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, summoned 15 employees from their field offices to Washington to read the comments.

We are delighted that the secretary wanted them read. Unfortunately, the employees were given less than a week to do so. If you assume an eight-hour workday, that means the group was zipping through somewhere north of 7,000 comments an hour.