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...still another voice has been add ed to what is rapidly becoming a busi ness babel in Washington: the American Business Conference was formed to speak for medium-size growth companies...
...task force examining ways to help American industry. He has a point. And in their search, policymakers should remember that the most important way to strengthen the nation's industry is to pursue fiscal and monetary policies that will create the stable, predictable and noninflationary climate in which busi nesses can flourish...
Just as the first wave of student protests subsided, the government cracked down with a series of iron-fisted edicts and actions: a ban against all political activity, the closing of all university campuses and, finally, the summary arrest of hundreds of prominent politicians, busi nessmen and student leaders. Indeed, even the head of the governing Democratic Republican Party, Kim Jong Pil, was detained. The arrest that proved to be a decisive provocation, however, was that of the government's leading critic, Kim Dae Jung. To justify their actions, the authorities charged that he had connived to foment...
House members generally agree that the budget will be the main item of busi ness this session and that it should be as lean as possible. Even liberals acknowledge that the nation's problems do not appear to yield to money and to Government intervention. "We haven't had the pruning of the programs that don't work," admits Abner Mikva, a leading liberal Democrat who was re-elected from Chicago's North Shore suburbs by a scant 1,000 votes. "Because of that, all of Government is carrying a burden of presumed incompetence and inefficiency...
That is because the real busi ness of conventions, as any rank-and-file registrant will at test, is not formulating industry-wide policies or discussing pressing issues of the day in open session, but gossiping, making contacts, winning contracts or finding...