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...President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control [July 11] recommended that military pensions be scaled back so that they no longer amount to about twice the rate found in the private sector. This proposal ignores the risk to life and limb, especially during training and combat, that is at least twice as great in the military as in civilian life. The survey's suggestions deserve the same attention that business brass would give to military men who advised them on corporate pensions...
Until the Whoops debacle, the biggest bond defaults had come in the private sector. The Penn Central ran out of cash bonds June 1970, forcing it into what remains America's biggest bankruptcy: $3 billion in liabilites, including $1 billion worth of bonds...
...gritty charm of old buildings and streets, they began a unique route to urban renewal. The first step, in 1967, was the establishment of the South Street Seaport Museum, led by Advertising Executive Peter Stanford, and supported by Shipping Magnate Jakob Isbrandtsen. The pooling of resources from the private sector helped make the institution more than a collection of artifacts. Among the principal contributors: Laurance Rockefeller, the Astor Foundation, RCA, Exxon and Time Inc. The museum, now headed by Christopher Lowery, began to acquire ancient real estate along with old vessels and naval paraphernalia...
That recognition prompted the Cajun State to provide matching funds for Williams project In the post funding has crime from the other states in which the research has been carried out--Mississippi, and Louisiana. The private sector and other scientific associations have also contributed money...
Many businessmen feel that a private-sector summer job gives a teen-ager more meaningful training than its government equivalent does. Says Ted Bruinsma, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which has co-sponsored "First Break-Give a Kid a Job" for ten years: "This is a teen-ager's first glimpse of the business world. We want the experience to be a real...