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Article: On Leave, Hurricane Center's Director Is in the Eye of the Storm
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- The Washington Post
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- July 11, 2007
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Stormy weather is usually outside the National Hurricane Center
in Miami. But it's inside the center for this year's hurricane
season.
The center's director, Bill Proenza, was sent away "on leave"
Monday after six months on the job. He was squeezed out from the
top, by unhappy bosses in Washington, and from the bottom, by 23
employees who led a mutiny.
The bureaucratic cyclone that swept through the National
Hurricane Center serves as a powerful reminder of how senior
government executives can end up being treated as outsiders by their
staffs, especially when they are raising difficult issues involving
science and budgets.
How the hurricane center, one of the government's premier
agencies, ...