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...strike. It is also true that they had to swear it in order to get their jobs, feed their families, heat their homes and all those other little niceties. It is also true that the strike--and, the threat of strike--are the only power the laborers have. Public sector strikes are far from uncommon; what is new is the stubborn obstinance of Reagan, or for that matter Providence mayor Buddy Cianci, who has fired his garbagemen. In most cases, a strike by public employees brings both sides to the bargaining table, and certainly the controllers have indicated their willingness...
...actually cost the Government $71 million. The report found evidence of both bribery and fraud by some contractors. A consortium of 753 private utilities agreed in 1973 to put up more than a third of the capital for Clinch River. Thanks to the cost overruns, the private sector investment will be no more than 8%, and probably less...
...urgent rush to get into breeder technology." President Jimmy Carter, worried about the proliferation of plutonium, tried to stop Clinch River. Even Budget Director David Stockman, while he was a Michigan Congressman, opposed Clinch River, contending that the Government should not underwrite nuclear development for the private sector by building the reactor. He called the project "totally incompatible with our free-market approach to energy policy...
...Salvador, the moderate junta, led by President José Napoleón Duarte, was having new and serious problems. Right-wing businessmen, long attacked by Duarte as the greatest threat to the junta, were grasping for a share of power in the beleaguered country. Said the President: "The private sector is in its final offensive...
...policies, first clashed openly with the Duarte government over a proposed relaxation of a wage-price freeze. Government officials quashed the plan. Since then, businessmen, frustrated by the lack of international confidence in the Salvadoran economy, have pressed Duarte to moderate his reforms by giving the private sector freer reign. The campaign has had some success. Besides loosening tax and credit requirements, the junta has indefinitely postponed its planned second stage of the land-reform program, which would have converted some 1,500 small farms to peasant cooperatives...