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...labor troubles simmer down, the Jaruzelski government will have a chance to complete its long-awaited economic reform blueprint. A foreshadowing of the plan came three days after the end of the congress, when the head of the government's price commission announced a series of proposed price hikes that would triple most food bills. Bread, for example, would jump from 21? to 64? a loaf. Simultaneously, the government will not be raising wages. The squeeze could turn out to be intolerable-and create even more unrest than before-although low- and middle-income Poles would be partially shielded...
...Premier outlines a sweeping blueprint for Socialist reform...
Many big manufacturing firms have been counting on so-called cad/cam systems (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing) to ease the skills squeeze. These computer-controlled machines do everything from preparing a three-dimensional blueprint to selecting the proper drill bit to bore a metal part. Unfortunately, the nation lacks enough skilled workers to boost cad/cam output to a level anywhere nearly high enough to satisfy the surge in demand...
Congressmen, including some who said they would go along with some "fine tuning" of the Clean Air Act, are upset too. Waxman called the proposals "nothing less than a blueprint for the destruction of our clean air laws." The public is likely to agree; a Harris survey indicated that more than 80% of Americans oppose any weakening of the Clean...
...this is sketched lightly and crisply. But when the leader of the association appropriates the manuscript of Fleur's just completed novel in order to use its plot as a blueprint for manipulating the destinies of his hapless sect, Spark performs her characteristic sleight of hand. Her brisk little comedy turns out to hinge on mysteries of good and evil, reality and imagination. The feat may be done no better here than in half a dozen of her earlier novels, but it is quite enough to bear out Fleur's assertion that "everything happens to an artist: time...