Word: programing
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Even as Warsaw held the line against militant workers and farmers, there were signs that it was taking some reform promises seriously. The government last week published a draft program for sweeping economic change that would put greater emphasis on the profit motive, consult worker councils on management decisions and grant more autonomy to individual factories. It would also make concessions to the basic demands of the country's private farmers, who own about 75% of the land and produce 80% of Poland's domestically grown food supply. Among other things, the program called for higher prices...
...dollar. Miller also helped talk the United Auto Workers into what Union President Douglas Fraser called "the worst economic settlement we've ever made." The U.A.W. leaders accepted $622 million in additional wage concessions in exchange for a package of noneconomic gains, including a blue-collar profit-sharing program. But Fraser pointed out that "the only thing worse is the alternative, and that is having no jobs." Finally, Chrysler's suppliers will agree to $72 million in price cuts. The total package will reduce the company's yearly operating costs by $500 million...
Despos, therefore, continues to run his business in tight quarters, but his anger is mounting. Says he: "I don't really want a new Government program to help small businessmen. Yet it's so frustrating to know a larger clientele is there to be served if only the financial markets were...
...leading candidate for the vacant top job in the Chicago school system. He turned it down. No wonder. The nation's third largest school system, with 458,000 students, is racked by money problems. It will close ten schools this month, and a third of the extracurricular programs have been canceled. Unless fur ther budget cuts are made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member school board, pressed for the appointment...
DIED. David Lilienthal, 81, brilliant, contentious self-described "craftsman in public affairs" who ran the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1941 to 1946 and later, as the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, directed the postwar U.S. nuclear power program; of a heart attack; in New York City. A onetime public utilities lawyer, Lilienthal sold electricity cheaper than competing private firms, made TVA the nation's biggest power producer within a decade after its 1933 creation, and was equally aggressive at the AEC. One Senator accused him of running the TVA like "a Führer," and opponents used...