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...drop earrings are made at a Nepalese technical school in a community consisting largely of underprivileged families from the lower castes. The workers at one of the company's small Costa Rican cooperatives?where each sewer and cutter of the brand's twill pants and chinos helps make financial decisions???turned an exceptional profit last year and were able to give themselves a bonus of three months...
...impotence of the domestic policy group that enabled Stockman to acquire enormous influence over all domestic decisions???and to keep his job. Stockman's publicly expressed skepticism in the Atlantic Monthly about the economic program he had done so much to shape and sell to Congress would have caused him to be summarily fired for disloyalty from many a past Administration. Indeed, some of Reagan's aides wanted the President to bounce Stockman, but there was simply nobody to take his place. Says a senior Reagan adviser: "As I sat there at those meetings and they were talking about Stockman...
Reading It All. Apart from his reputation as a liberal?a useful but sometimes misleading label when applied to judicial decisions???Fortas has a personal concern for social justice. At his urging, Arnold, Fortas, and Porter, his law firm in Washington for nearly two decades, took on something like 100 free cases?far more than normal legal ethics would dictate. "He had a strong feeling that a law firm should not be operated completely for profit," says Thurman Arnold, a New Deal trustbuster and former federal appeals judge...
...private sector of the economy is making them work. Government gave business the incentive to expand, but it was private businessmen who made the decisions as to whether, when and where to do it. Washington gave consumers a stimulus to spend, but millions of ordinary Americans made the decisions???so vital to the economy ?as to how and how much to spend. For all that it has profited from the ideas of Lord Keynes, the U.S. economy is still the world's most private and most free-enterprising. Were he alive, Keynes would certainly like it to stay that...
...Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty bonds, various oil companies, subpoenas, jurisdictions, previous decisions??? all very complicated...