Word: businessmen
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Linen was often Time Inc.'s ambassador to the world. He started international news tours for American businessmen coordinated aid to refugees from the Arab-Israeli wars, and worked for numerous charitable organizations. For three years he was president of the National Urban League. Future publishers of TIME may perform similar roles with similar distinction, but they will always hold in respect-and use as a measure-the contribution of James A. Linen...
...might just inspire employers to hire well-schooled middle-class youth at the expense of older workers. A better compromise, suggested by Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein, would be for the Government to subsidize minimum-wage payments to the youthful unemployed. Directed specifically to the underclass, the program would allow businessmen to pay a fraction of the cost for jobs that they might otherwise refuse to fill. Another wise Government investment would be to shift some federal funds to more and better mass transit, which, beyond all its benefits to the environment, would give the underclass access...
...programs would work better if private business had a bigger voice in designing and managing them. Perhaps businessmen, who as a class are effective at solving problems and getting things done, could bid on projects to raze and rebuild sections of the underclass ghettos, providing shops, industries and services on a model?and ultimately profitmaking?basis. Business could also take over much of the job training now carried out in government centers under federal programs and probably do it better and cheaper and even profitably. Tax incentives, for example, could be designed to reward employers who hire the long-term...
Life is going on normally in Taiwan, but other signs of jitters are visible all across the prosperous, 250-mile-long island that lies 100 miles off the mainland coast. Farmers, taxi drivers and businessmen all nervously ask American visitors about the Carter Administration's timetable for recognition of Peking. Universities have been running newspaper ads offering translating services so that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry...
...pure circulation, all three network news shows together attract just 74% of the viewers," says Arledge. He adds with a shudder: "More than a quarter of the people get their news elsewhere. Half the television station owners around the country are just businessmen who can't be trusted to cover news with any responsibility, and their local news directors are extensions of their sales forces." The way to draw many of their viewers to ABC, Arledge suggests, is to have "responsible but vigorous and fresh journalism." Over at the other networks, people wonder how responsible ABC will be once...