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Duehay said that he expected the study to becompleted by February and that he would aim to geta linkage plan passed by next April...
...rules. At the height of the 1973-75 recession, for example, more than 75% of the 8.4 million jobless Americans received benefits; last December only 37% of those out of work got unemployment compensation. By eliminating 300,000 public service jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (GETA), the Reagan Administration shut off a source of work that has been both praised as a safety net for minorities and damned as a boondoggle. Finally, there have been major cuts in public employment services, which placed 3.7 million people in jobs last year, including 583,000 who had been...
...into the booming Japanese auto industry, and General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James Adachi, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan: "We can set up a factory to make geta [Japanese wooden clogs], or open a supermarket, so long as it is smaller than 500 square meters...
...that anarchy is to exist at all, then we'd rather be poor than well-financed and well-regulated. Foundation money around here is even more conservative than it is everywhere else, and it rarely comes without tight strings. Besides, there is a chance now that we can geta few hundred dollars from Harvard, through the HUC, without strings- or with loose ones at worst...
...come down, for "transitory" is Tokyo's middle name. Even Frank Lloyd Wright's earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, built in 1922, is threatened with replacement by a highrise, moneymaking skyscraper. But most of the buildings razed have been scabrous shanties along the narrow, unnamed streets trod by geta-ed feet which comprise most of Tokyo's byways. The new roads-$470 million worth of them-will ease the burden of Tokyo's cab drivers, who have a hard time finding their way around and usually require written directions (in Japanese) to reach a destination. The reek...