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Labor unions, as such, have outlived their usefulness. It's time for management to take advantage of the situation and give labor a vested interest in the capitalistic enterprise system through equity profit sharing. Eventually, labor unions will be forced to change their point of view and seek higher profits for the benefit of their membership. At that point, outside stockholders may even want to pay for the privilege of joining such associations...
...intentions, you inverted my views by 180° [July 31]. I believe that the world economy entered in 1972 the fifth Kondratieff upswing, not a downswing. At the core of this upswing is the prospect that the prices of energy, food, raw materials will fluctuate in a relatively higher range than in the previous downswing (1951-72). We shall have to try dealing with inflation more seriously than we now are. On the other hand, the Kondratieff upswing requires greatly enlarged investments in energy production and conservation, transport, water conservation and development, pollution control. When economists, politicians and businessmen come...
...Fifty-one million Americans live in areas without sufficient access to health care services. Medical costs in general are running wild and Medicaid costs in particular threaten to bankrupt your states. Life expectancies vary widely by race and income levels, and infant mortality rates are 50-100 per cent higher in your urban poverty centers than in the nation as a whole...
...regional official of the Federal Aviation Administration suggested that other, as yet undetermined, factors besides noise may account for the higher death rate. That may be, Meecham acknowledges, but he notes that 220 extra deaths were recorded in the high-noise areas last year. The odds against that kind of difference occurring by chance, he argues, are a thousand...
Harvard's extension program, unlike other universities', appeals to a more educated group of men and women, Shinagel said. Over 60 per cent of Harvard Extension students have a bachelor's degree, and about one-quarter have masters degrees or higher...