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...AFFIRMATIVE ACTION" is a governmentally required positive effort, beyond elimination of discrimination, to seek out and employ persons of groups that have been discriminated against. It is a requirement now imposed on all Federal contractors, which includes almost all employers. Now required as part of a program of affirmative action are "goals" and "timetables"--how many of each protected group the employer hopes to add in a given period of time. The failure to reach a goal in a given time will not necessarily be considered evidence of discrimination if the contractor can show "good faith" efforts to reach...
...course, to raise the productivity of both labor and capital. However, the structure of European industry and the difficulty of shedding unwanted labor hamper this policy in many countries. France, for example, still has a host of small, undercapitalized companies. Out of 908,000 firms only 37 employ more than 5,000 people, and only 140 more than 2,000. The figures suggest that the country has a long way to go before it realizes optimum economies of scale...
...very impressed with those radicals who would reply that the England or America of ten years ago were not in fact free countries, since no capitalist country could ever be "truly" free. The countries these people tend to admire for their "true" freedom--China, Cuba, and North Vietnam--all employ not only censorship but positive control of the arts as an integral part of their respective governing strategies. Those who would go further and say that no country has ever had "true" freedom impress me even less, since it's hard to understand how they would recognize freedom...
...truthfulness from Castaneda's pre-Don Juan past. Where, for example, was the motive for an elaborate scholarly put-on? The Teachings was submitted to a university press, an unlikely prospect for bestsellerdom. Besides, getting an anthropology degree from U.C.L.A. is not so difficult that a candidate would employ so vast a confabulation just to avoid research. A little fudging, perhaps, but not a whole system in the manner...
...study aims to employ the large population areas of both Boston and Moscow to validate Lown's hypothesis that sudden death is caused by "electrical accidents...