Mr. Pataki said the Legislature lagged far behind popular opinion on issues like revamping campaign finance laws and streamlining the state's cumbersome school-aid formulas.
Meanwhile in his first day as chief executive, Bill Winters told Standard's staff that the bank had to strengthen its finances and streamline its business.
Alexandre Polack, the spokesman for Piebalgs, explained that the philosophy behind the idea of streamlining financing was to make sure countries made sufficient fiscal room to generate public resources.
For now, their focus is on streamlining the financing process.
The next government, no matter who wins, will probably be forced to cut Brazil's budget, but Neves has experience in streamlining government finances without endangering public safety, education or health care.
Under the plan to speed up debt relief, finance ministers will streamline cumbersome procedures so that 10 nations, all but one in Africa, can begin to use about $17.5 billion that they would have had to set aside for debt payments this year.
Mr. McLaughlin's appointment was viewed as part of a trend to appoint businessmen as university administrators, partly to streamline finances.
Accordingly, many of the e-health companies that receive venture financing sell proprietary technology aimed at streamlining the health care infrastructure.
Meanwhile the Department for Transport said that savings of £40m from streamlining back office functions across finance, HR and procurement and £30m from reducing spending on consultancies.
He has already raised about $500,000 for a political action committee to push an agenda that includes eliminating the Board of Education, streamlining the city's campaign finance program and abolishing term limits.
