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...former PATCO members, welcome to the private sector. Jobs that pay $30,000 a year are rare. Social Security taxes are outrageously high. Retirement plans are not so generous. Holidays aren't conveniently placed next to weekends. Vacations are shorter. You will constantly be angry as the government takes your money to pay exorbitant salaries and perquisites. We wish more government employees would join...
...million next year. The total expense for each of the 42,000 trainees who will be enrolled in 1982 ranges from $5,000 to $13,000 a year. But partly because some Job Corps centers are run by private companies, and provide job training for the private sector, the program won support from conservative lawmakers. Says Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: "This program works. Even $13,000 a year is a cheap price to pay to keep someone off the welfare rolls for the rest of his life...
...West Berlin three East German refugees held a hunger strike, and protesters built a replica of the Wall to block the office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline. Only a few miles away, in the eastern sector, buildings were adorned with red flags as troops paraded down Karl-Marx-Allee to honor what they proudly call "the antifascist protection wall...
...economy has sustained capital outflows of more than $10 billion, compared with an average outflow of about $2 billion annually during the 1970s. Much of the money is leaving not just because of current economic upset but because of a perceived sense of increasing intervention in the Canadian private sector by the Ottawa government...
Virata's actions, however, are causing consternation among private sector bankers and businessmen. He has poured out additional millions in government money to keep the endangered banks, financial houses and corporations afloat. Virata has also set up debt restructuring plans and, in some cases, conversion schemes that have given the government ownership of firms...