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Hostility toward government workers from the outside is nothing new, but there is a serious danger that this new, internal criticism will drive talented governmetn workers into the already-alluring private sector. Regardless of differing claims as to the proper sphere of government activity, it clearly serves no one's interests to make members of the federal bureaucracy frustrated and defensive. Perhaps the time has come for the public to throw a supportive cloak around these naked civil servants, since the President's policies clearly work to strip them of their self-respect...
...Goodman, like other specialists, points to what seems an even greater reason for the field's spurt in popularity: the extraordinarily lucrative possibilities of employment in private industry. Starting salaries for qualified computer scientists in the private sector range...
Despite the furor over his Islamization plans, Ershad has made an impressive start on Bangladesh's troubles. He has revitalized the private sector by returning more than 300 industrial enterprises to private ownership. Ershad has jailed seven former Cabinet ministers on charges of corruption. He has reduced the price of such staples as rice, sugar and wheat, and he hopes to raise food-grain output 25% by 1986, mostly by Introducing higher-yield crops...
...contract cancer, which ranks a close second behind cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death today. In 1978 alone, he estimated number of deaths due the cancer was five times higher than all American military deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. The government and the private sector pour billions of dollars yearly into a nationwide attempt to conquer this 20th century plague. Unfortunately: much of this well-intentioned money has been mishandled...
...there is no guarantee that other countries will be willing to reopen free trade just because we are ready to compete. And without the rigors of a competitive atmosphere, American industrialists will probably fail to construct Mondale's nifty, new auto industry. Japan's "unfairness" in this sector consists mainly in being able to build better and cheaper cars than we can. Part of the problem lies with aging Detroit factories, and, yes, a break of some sort will help the companies to find capital for new investment...