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Americans are, of course, still as vociferous as ever in complaining about their government; the whole antiwar protest movement is an example of that tendency. In recent years, their complaints about the private sector of the economy have received a considerable boost from the rise of consumerism in the U.S. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader has successfully taken on big targets-the auto companies, food industry, etc.-that have long seemed impervious to the complaints of individuals. The institution of the ombudsman, long familiar in Europe, has begun to crop up in the U.S. to represent the interests of beleaguered citizens...
...division between the private and public sector. The Democrats would support public programs-welfare, education, poverty-more generously than the Republicans...
...activities of the Fine Arts Administration can stimulate some Italian critics to unusual fury. Journalist Lamberti Sorrentino calls it "the most anachronistic, insensate, absurd sector of the Italian state apparatus." But the real malaise lies deeper, and it is only visible to those who-following the lead of conservation groups like Italia Nostra and the recently formed Firenze Viva-are ready to see the problem holistically, as a menace to the balance of interlocked, mutually supporting cultural and natural systems. The fresco is to the wall as the wall is to the building, the building to the piazza, the piazza...
...Bottom and environs have been getting bigger productivity increases out of their workers than have bosses in private industry. Between 1967 and 1971, the report showed, productivity in the Federal Government rose an average of 2% a year, v. an average annual improvement of 1.5% in the non-farm sector of the private economy...
FORTUNE'S annual compilation of figures for the nation's 500 largest industrial companies, published this week, serves as a kind of X ray of the corporate sector of the U.S. economy: it illuminates trends that can be discerned only dimly in individual company reports. Among last year's notable tendencies were a somewhat disconcerting ability of the big companies to cut employment while increasing sales, a continued sharp decline in merger activity and what looks like the beginning of a turn away from diversification...