Word: adoptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Goldschmidt's solution to the automakers' problems is for the U.S. to adopt some of the Japanese techniques. He says that the Government, management and labor should cooperate to cut manufacturing costs and increase profits through such measures as relaxed antitrust laws and slower and smaller wage increases. To buy time for this new effort, Goldschmidt proposes that Japanese auto imports be restricted for the next five years. He gloomily predicts that otherwise only General Motors will survive as a made-in-the-U.S.A. auto manufacturer...
...Despite economic recovery and surprisingly effective planning, administration and management, the Nicaraguan economy remains weak and vulnerable to a war effort. An outbreak of hostilities would force the Nicaraguan authorities to adopt "war communism" methods. This would imply labor conscription, extending government control over private sector activities, and generally would radicalize the Nicaraguan political process...
...combat just that sort of subtle discrimination, a student group has recommended a mandatory day-long seminar for faculty on "institutional racism and sexism." We urge the school to adopt this suggestion--and one that it hire a full-time recruiter for minority students...
...government. As inflation pushes people into higher tax brackets, federal, state and local bureaucracies collect larger revenues without having to put tax increases to a vote. Every 1% increase in inflation results in a 1.5% growth in personal income tax revenues. Consumers and politicians waging war on inflation might adopt a motto of the late great comic strip character Pogo: "We have met the enemy...
...series of speakers--most representing city employees unions--urged that the council adopt the package...