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BRITAIN remains a problem child, beset by just about every possible economic ill: falling productivity, high inflation (15.1% in 1976), a dismally low growth rate (1.5% predicted for 1977), and a currency that is only a shadow of its former self. Still, Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan and his predecessor Harold Wilson have managed to pull the country out of even graver conditions, and the increasing flow of North Sea oil may yet rescue Britain from its present economic poorhouse...
Schmücker's predecessor, Rudolf Leiding, tried to move in all three directions; in particular, he began phasing out production of the Beetle (only 200 a day are being made now) and shifting to the Rabbit and the sporty Scirocco. But Germany's tough labor unions are represented on VW's board, and the governments of the West German Federal Republic and the state of Lower Saxony own 40% of the company's stock. The labor and government interests formed an alliance that bitterly opposed any moves likely to cost jobs...
...lines, sharing the eloquence more equably and getting things done with less dalliance. Guare heightened the farce and added intrigue to personalities by setting each character to a modern musical rhythm with lyrics to match, in idioms such as Motown, salsa or samba. He collaborates well with his predecessor. There's a different kind of earthiness in each of them, and a lively counterpoint develops between the out-front 20th-century numbers and the Shakespearean run-around of the spoken parts...
Garguilo said it seems counterproductive for the city to destroy a money-saving agency while it tries to economize, but White's vice-mayor Edward T. Sullivan said last month, "Nothing comes to mind where they have saved money." Under the stewardship of Garguilo and her predecessor, Real Paper publisher Ralph Fine, the finance commission regularly reviewed the city's $55 million mrth of no-bid contracts, exposed the Boston Housing Authority and Real Property Department for incompetence, and found city officials pressuring employees for donations to White's reelection campaign...
Garguilo has alienated more politicians than her predecessor, performing her job as the goo-goos envisioned it 70 years ago. Fine served conscientiously but his sister-in-law works on White's staff and he is much closer to the mayor than Garguilo. Sullivan cited Fine as a fair chairman and it seems more than coincidental that Fine released a report on then-Suffolk County Sheriff Thomas S. Eisenstadt's misuse of county funds (to buy escargot servers among other things) when Eisenstadt was preparing to oppose White's reelection...