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...ills of low productivity and low growth. Legislators should concentrate their efforts on making sure that cuts in federal programs are aimed not at those who can least afford them, the urban poor, but at inefficiencies in the government bureaucracy, and especially the Defense Department. They should take a gradual approach to the proposed tax-cuts, and the supply-side economic theory on which they are based...
Polish authorities, however, later claimed that the catastrophic state of the economy made it impossible to eliminate Saturday work immediately. In an effort to head off a strike threat, Kama's government offered two compromise plans: a gradual move toward a five-day work week by 1985, or a work week consisting of five 8½-hour days. But Solidarity's national leadership, egged on by restive local chapters, rejected the half-loaf and unilaterally declared all Saturdays work-free. According to Solidarity officers, up to 85% of Poland's workers stayed at home...
...Rural and urban guerrilla groups have begun to operate in Honduras in the past year. Although their capabilities pose no threat to internal stability, their disruptive potential in the event of gradual regionalization of conflict should not be underestimated...
...After nearly a week of intense shuttle diplomacy between Damascus and Amman to devise a face-saving formula, Saudi Arabia's Deputy Prime Minister, Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, proudly proclaimed that his peacemaking efforts had been "crowned with success." He announced that Syria had agreed to a gradual withdrawal of the troops it had dispatched to the Jordanian border. Officials in Amman, though, were initially skeptical. Said Jordanian Minister of Information Adnan Abu Odeh: "We will make our judgment known when we see the last Syrian soldiers withdrawing from their positions." Then, in a further effort to heal...
Current energy policies, emphasizing gradual reductions of oil imports, fail to protect the U.S. from sudden economic and political disruptions following an oil supply cut-off, the study, entitled "Energy and Security," charges...