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...where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations, "is the most...
...year's end. And California agriculture, the state's largest industry, is suffering through the fourth year of a severe drought. "There's no engine of growth in sight," says Larry Kimbell, director of the Business Forecasting Project at the U.C.L.A. School of Management. "In the past, one sector after another took the lead in sustaining the economic expansion. But we currently see no such activity on the horizon...
Already this year three managers have been asked to seek challenges elsewhere in the private sector. And just last Friday master strategist Whitey Herzog suddenly quit after eleven years as skipper of the St. Louis Cardinals. Earlier in the season Davey Johnson, who led the New York Mets to a World Championship in 1986, was terminated despite a career winning percentage of .593. Bucky Dent was the latest casualty of the mercurial reign of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who must believe that God loves Yankee managers since he made so many of them. And in Atlanta's answer...
Despite the alleged hardships in store for theprivate sector, however, officials at firms wholand much of their contracts in the public sectorwere not so skeptical about the new service...
...first reaction was, hey, things are hardenough and clients are tired of paying," said JoeMarshall, a senior associate at Moriece and Gary,Inc., a Cambridge architectural landscaping firmthat deals primarily with government work.Marshall said firms would not have to pay theservice tax for public sector work...