Word: ares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the bubble plan, a company can cut a lot of pollution from sources that are easy and cheap to control, but let out more discharges from sources that are hard and costly to curb. Plants in the same neighborhood can form a bubble and make the accepted trades among...
Thus the policy stands to free up much investment money for new plants, improved productivity and more jobs. Regulators and businessmen agree that giving managers more freedom of choice will motivate them to develop more efficient, economical methods of fighting pollution. Example: the old regulations required Armco to install about...
"Fewer and fewer people are related to jobs that they can identify with," says he. "They see no connection between what they do on the job and what comes out at the end." They spend their lives isolated behind typewriters and computer consoles. Gyllenhammar worries that company chiefs expect the...
One group trying to figure out remedies is the Public Agenda Foundation, started a few years ago by Cyrus Vance and Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich. It is a business-academic think tank that uses Yankelovich's survey methods in six countries, and Gyllenhammar is its European chief. The early...
Gyllenhammar marvels that almost 11 million Americans have found jobs in the past three expansive years, but he worries that large legions are easily laid off when business turns down. It would be wiser, he argues, for companies not to hire so many people in good times and not to...