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...year over the next five years, boosting their proportion from 26.6% to 46.6%-the percentage of blacks in the county's total labor force. But when Fulton County Attorney Robert Young read the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, he told the commissioners that parts of their new hiring plan were illegal. County affirmative-action officers, said Young, "would direct department heads not to hire whites. You can't accomplish a 4% [annual increase] for blacks without discriminating on the basis of race." Last week the commission decided (by a vote of five white to two black commissioners...
...also plunged into public service and ran national programs to hire Viet Nam veterans and train unemployed blacks. That won him a justified reputation for social concern. Though his dedicated inflation fighting satisfies the most conservative Republicans, Miller is a registered Democrat who worries greatly about unemployment; in the past he supported the abortive presidential bid of Liberal Hubert Humphrey. So it was not surprising that when Carter had had enough of Arthur Burns' professorial nagging, a search team headed by Vice President Walter Mondale put Miller on a short list of potential successors at the Fed. Carter, aware that...
There are structural imbalances in the economy too that seem inaccessible to either monetary or budget policy. To cite just two: many of the unemployed are unskilled women, blacks and/or teenagers, whom employers are reluctant to hire unless demand reaches inflationary heights; medical and hospital costs seem to rise rapidly and inexorably no matter what is happening to business in general. Miller recognizes that such troubles need special attention, but they are no part of his responsibility at the Federal Reserve...
...seven Federal Reserve governors can be removed only "for cause," and none ever has been. Since they are appointed for 14-year terms, they can stay in Washington while Presidents come and go. Exempt from Civil Service rules, the board in Washington and the twelve regional Federal Reserve banks hire and fire whom they please...
...past three years. But few businessmen themselves have been prompted to leave, and most would regard such a move with distaste. Says Alfa Romeo Chairman Gaetano Cortesi of the kidnaping threat: "If it happens, it happens. But if you give up, they win." Cortesire-Ruoi FREY fuses to hire bodyguards, yet he tries to keep his movements unpredictable. He never buys his newspaper from the same stand, never makes airline or hotel reservations in advance and uses taxis rather than a company...