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Some of Mitterrand's more ambitious reforms will require parliamentary approval. He will probably move quickly, for example, on his commitment to create 210,000 new public-sector jobs over the next twelve months. But the new government seems in no hurry to carry out the most controversial part of Mitterrand's economic program: the nationalization of private banks and eleven basic industries, including aircraft production, electronics and chemicals...
...official becomes restless at his job, he may practice what the French call pantouflage (literally, the act of putting on one's slippers), departing for another post, possibly in the large sector of industry nationalized by De Gaulle after liberation. Or he may decide to enter private industry for a while. Then he may shuttle back to the civil service again...
than 100,000 jobs in the private sector...
...ways that will take up the slack for the abandoned government functions. The Defense Department is exempt from these cutbacks because it must increase preparedness against the world-wide Soviet threat. Furthermore, the government will cut taxes in an effort to encourage investment in the once-again-robust private sector...
...School is not playing a zerosum game, as they would say on Boylston St. It will continue to grow, striving to become the Harvard Business School of the public sector. Few students and faculty would argue that it should restrict such expansion, since both reap the benefits of increased prestige, but some feel that in an effort to grow, it has forgotten them. Porter sums up the combination of concern and optimism. The K-School, she says, is "doing a lot of things. It's having growing pains...