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Eileen Claussen Vince Hutchins Steven Marica Strong commitment to rooting out corruption and protecting public. Serving the Public Pragmatic, hands-on approach to MCH care; knowledgeable of political networks affecting MCH care; good working relationship with Congress and MCH care constituency. Good working relationship with Congress, business groups and environmental groups; forges ties with political appointees; different strategies for different groups. Pragmatic Incrementalism Empowers staff Small steps taken towards revitalizing as criminal Investigations Division investigators; instils sense of of OIG.
Within one year, he had earned an MPH from the University of California's School of Public Health at Berkeley and had already left private practice. By 1971, Dr Hutchins entered government service as a GS-15 to become the Regional Medical Director for Health Education and Welfare's (HEW) Maternal and Child Health Service. He continued to move up the MCH hierarchy and by 1977, Dr Hutchins was promoted to Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. He served as Director of this division or bureau, under its various names within both HEW and Health and Human Services (HHS), from 1977 until his retirement in 1992.
889,000). Black blew the whistle on the Keating Five. In fact, Black's courage and willingness to stand up to Keating and the five senators was a watershed in the S&L scandal. An investigation was subsequently triggered into the Keating Five, and the federal home loan banking system was also reorganized. Black made a lot of enemies as a result of his efforts, but he was also responsible for containing Americans' tab in bailing out the failed S&L industry. Ed Gray (1994) summed it up rather well when he said: 'Bill Black deserves to be called a patriot in that he is a person who strongly cares about the public's well-being.