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...possible that Paul Volcker has had his fill of running American money policy and may now want to make a little more money himself. The $69,800 he earns annually as Fed chairman pales in comparison with the $500,000 or so he could command in the private sector. Not that megabucks or family problems have ever swayed him. "With him," says a friend, "the job is the thing, and people like that don't change." While Volcker's term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board runs until 1992 and he could remain even under another...
...face of all this, are municipalities considering public ownership? Much of it has to do with concern for what a cable communications network can do for a city or town and ways in which a publicly owned system can service citizens perhaps much better than the private sector. City officals are looking at subscriber rates. Since Massachusetts is deregulated, cable companies can charge whatever the market will bear. Massachusetts law presents a number of additional reasons for consideration of public ownership (Cambridge, Wellesley, Shrewsbury, Marblehead, and Brookline are currently considering public over private ownership...
...program will cause the greatest idling of American farmland ever. Up to 82.3 million acres, or 20% of all U.S. cropland, will be left unsowed. With some $5 billion less being spent to produce crops this year, as many as 50,000 workers in the farm sector, from cotton ginners to wheat cutters, could be hurt, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture impact statement...
...that several shelters are closing Guernsey will look to the public sector for a solution to the crisis. "We will try to do some educating and lobbying aimed at city and state officials because they have the resources. "He criticized the government's fiscal priorities nothing that "what it cost to build one Trident submarine would run our shelter for 166,000 years...
...year program, Portman hopes to start off in a law firm for a few years before launching a career in the Justice Department. "Statistically, most joint MPP-Law School graduates start off in law firms," he said, adding, "It's easier to make the change from private to public sector than the other way around...