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...political power and abnormal privileges." Toward that goal, Martinez de Hoz is trying to prune the mammoth state-run industrial sector, a Perón-era albatross that produces less than 10% of Argentina's G.N.P.-and much of the government's debts and deficits. State enterprises employ an estimated 300,000 unnecessary workers. But the Economy Minister's plans to cut bloated staff and sell losing businesses to private firms have run into strong union opposition. When Videla raised the work week of Buenos Aires' huge state electricity company from 35 to 42 hours...
...Create a National Youth Conservation Corps, an updated version of the CCC. It would employ jobless Americans under age 24 in cleaning up the national and state parks and forests. It would spend $350 million over the next year and a half, creating 35,000 new jobs...
...Desert Valley packaging company buys fruit from Coachella Growers, which employ 450 workers represented...
...grocery markets by a few chains is matched by the domination of cropland by a few large, diversified companies, such as Tenneco, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, and Coca Cola. In California, 77 per cent of the agricultural land is controlled by 7 per cent of the growers, who employ 79 per cent of the state's farmworkers...
...White are commendable. The lengthened school committee and city council terms will reduce the pressure on incumbents to constantly campaign. White's half-hearted recommendation to prohibit school committee candidates from soliciting funds from school department employees was quickly rejected by the city council. Squeezing the people you employ for donations is a routine practice of Boston politicians that the mayor himself has perfected. Last year former City Fire Commissioner James Kelly and two of his assistants were indicted for reportedly shaking down firemen for donations to White's '75 campaign. Despite the testimony of six allegedly victimized firemen, Kelly...