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...industrial nations," said Alan Greenspan, a New York City economic consultant, at a meeting last week of TIME's three Boards of Economists (see following story). In its latest economic outlook, the OECD noted that the state's share of the economy in 19 West European countries has begun falling for the first time since World War II. Public outlays accounted for 50.6% of gross domestic product in 1984, vs. 51.1% the year before. Even Scandinavia, where the welfare state achieved its fullest flowering, has caught the spirit. Says Nils Lundgren, chief economist of PK Banken, Sweden's largest bank...
Outside Europe, India has made the most dramatic shift of any non-Communist nation. Since the country's independence in 1947, socialism has been an accepted part of India's political and economic system. Now the subcontinent has begun to embrace free enterprise too. The change is largely the work of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who took office in 1984 after the assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi. Rajiv has presided over a liberalization program that has slashed taxes and produced more than 80 decrees loosening or abolishing business restrictions. Despite foot-dragging by India's entrenched army of bureaucrats...
However, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said yesterday that renovations on Eliot Hall have already begun and that the Cabot residents slated to live in Eliot will be given alternative housing in 29 Garden St. Jewett said that renovations to Eliot may be complete by next spring...
...virtual war footing with the U.S. The rationale for a buildup was strengthened last month when the U.S. House of Representatives appropriated $100 million in aid for the anti-Sandinista contras. The extent of the military escalation is not clear. U.S. intelligence sources report that Sandinista troops have begun to mass across the border from the Honduran bases where 10,000 to 15,000 contras are encamped. Military exercises now appear to center on the Soviet-built attack and transport helicopters that have proved to be the most effective weapons against the contras. Analysts believe that the Sandinista army...
South Africa first sanctioned black unions in 1979, when thousands of black workers were moving into the cities from the countryside. Since the laborers had begun to get together in informal groups that operated outside the law, the government concluded that the best way to control them was to legalize unions. It set up an organized labor system, including an industrial court that could rule in work disputes. At present, the legal situation is somewhat anomalous. Unions have the legal right to strike once they have gone through the requisite negotiations, but employers have the legal right to fire striking...