The struggle for control of policy and program development, Robert S. Gilmour and Alexis A. Halley; accelerating implementation - alert and collision avoidance, Diana Evans; reconciling pork-barrel politics and national transportation policy, Diana Evans; "not in my backyard" - high level nuclear waste policy, James A. Thurber; hazardous waste disposal - the double-edged sword of the RCRA land-ban hammers, Alexis A. Halley; making up for lost time - the defense nuclear weapons complex clean-up, James A. Thurber; battling for budgetary savings - prospective payments for hospitals under Medicare, Alexis A. Halley; producing a reliable weapons system - advance medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), Robert S. Gilmour and Eric Minkoff; improving military co-ordination - the Goldwater-Nichols reorganization of the Department of defense, Thomas L. McNaugher and Roger L. Sperry; resolving policy difference - foreign aid and human rights, G. Calvin Mackenzie; interjecting constituency concerns - foreign military arms sales, G. Calvin Mackenzie; co-managing policy and program development, Robert S. Gilmour and Alexis A. Halley.