Word: etzioni
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...Oren W. Etzioni '86, who has lived in Israel, says volunteering for PAIR was a form of "individual patriotism." Etzioni says that his contribution will be to help transfer computer technology between America and Israel...
After decades of a "build and forget" policy abetted by irresponsible officials who were only too happy to hand on problems like maintenance and repair to their successors, the nation has no choice but to reorder its priorities and search for long-term funding. As Sociologist Etzioni has declared: "America had a big party that lasted 30 years. We overconsumed and underinvested, and now we have to pay the piper." - By Ed Magnuson...
...knows how much it would cost to modernize the entire infrastructure of the U.S. economy. Pat Choate, co-author of the America in Ruins study, estimates that the task could take as much as $3 trillion, roughly the amount of the annual gross national product at present. Amitai Etzioni, director of the Center for Policy Research, believes that more than $400 billion should be invested over the next decade on railroads, highways and bridges. The total value of all government-sponsored construction on those projects last year was $23.4 billion...
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...experience of these tripartite groups has been mixed to date. Labor leaders find the concept appealing, although they would like such commissions to be policymaking rather than just advisory. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, who coined the term reindustrialization and has done perhaps the most work on the subject, believes that three or four of these groups might be useful; but he is skeptical about their widespread use. Some businessmen, on the other hand, believe that tripartite committees offer the illusion of progress, but actually result in more bureaucracy and few changes...