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Article: The Daley Forecast: Better Weather Service; Sun Comes Out After Stormy Overhaul
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- The Washington Post
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- July 28, 1999
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Senior Commerce Department officials will go to the National
Weather Service's Northern Virginia office this morning to offer what
some might call a politically dangerous forecast: More accurate
weather predictions are just around the corner.
Commerce Secretary William Daley said yesterday he has no doubt
the Weather Service will deliver. Today's ceremony at the Baltimore-
Washington Forecast Office in Sterling celebrates the completion of a
key component in the sometimes tortuous 10-year effort to modernize
the Weather Service, a Commerce agency.
It has been a controversial journey that Daley, a Chicago pol who
grew up in a well-lubricated political machine, never expected to