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...state's pricing system, designed to hold down food costs to consumers, was a blueprint for bankruptcy. The state was paying farmers 10 zlotys for a liter of milk that it sold in stores for 4 zlotys. Live hogs were bought from farmers at 130 zlotys per kilogram and sold as butchered pork at 70 zlotys per kilogram. Farmers bought bread and fed it to their livestock because it was cheaper than the wheat it was made from. Price subsidies began absorbing a staggering one-third of the national budget...
...evacuation plan which called for Cambridge's residents to travel more than 100 miles away to the village of Greenfield, Mass., in the event of a nuclear attack, the city council decided to take a stand. The body refused to distribute the federal plans, and instead assembled its own blueprint for avoiding nuclear disaster: a mass-produced pamphlet detailing the case for disarmament...
...more important, Reagan ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to speed up procedures for licensing nuclear plants, so that the time from first blueprint to the start of electricity production, which now is as long as 14 years, can be cut to six to eight years. NCR Chairman Nunzio Palladino is thinking of standardizing nuclear-plant designs. Also, Reagan ordered the Administration to work with industry on developing safe methods for the permanent disposal of nuclear wastes. The Government would like to open demonstration sites to test methods for burying atomic garbage safely underground...
That "if is the block on which all the book's dialogues stumble. Naipaul thinks that the rest of civilization cannot be ignored; his partners disagree. He argues that the Koran alone is an inadequate blueprint for a functioning state...
Solidarity Day provides more of the blueprint for rebuilding the loyalty between workers and their own leadership than among workers of different unions with little common interest. Right now, there can only be solidarity in opposition to Reagan. If the American labor leadership is serious in its commitment to obtain decent wages and working conditions for all workers, it must impress the members of its unions, and all non-union workers also, that the welfare of the working poor is worth sacrificing for and that they, in their current prosperity, should not neglect their roots...