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Whether or not the leftist parties can resolve their differences, there are already some critical analyses of what the common program would do to the French economy. For one thing, there would be the familiar stultifying effects of nationalization and egalitarian pay policies. Moreover, according to a recent study by Eurofinance, a Paris-based research firm whose shareholders include leading European and U.S. banks, the left is unlikely to do much better than Giscard's government in solving France's economic problems. If the common program were enacted, the study argues, the program's large wage increases...
...leader in California's restructuring is Governor Brown, a Zen egalitarian whose announced goal is "regaining the ideological initiative Western society has lost to other parts of the world." Ethnics account for more than 35% of Brown's new 1,780 government appointments. The state's supreme court's new chief justice and the director of the California department of transportation are women- as are 541 other Brown appointees. Reforms do not end with quotas. Once bastions of professional courtesy, the states regulatory boards are being filled with ordinary citizens. The medical board's vice...
...prefers to see itself as egalitarian though it is much impressed by class. Buck and Jim turned their raft into a royal bedchamber for the King and the Duke, Grace Kelly got a regal send-off when she left Hollywood to become Princess to the world's finest amusement park, and the Kennedys were empurpled by the press...
...goes. The seven Prime Ministers who have served her have attested to her impressive grasp of state affairs. Despite the rigid order of palace life, she has tried in small ways to make the monarchy a bit more modern socially-with her walkabouts, for example, or by substituting relatively egalitarian garden parties for the stratified debutante balls...
...competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other, Labor was showing the frayed edges of a party too long in power...