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Creating Wealth. To help overcome a housing shortage, Poles are now being encouraged to invest their savings in construction cooperatives or even to build their own houses. "I am a true capitalist," said the president of a cooperative near Warsaw. "I am helping these men to create wealth." But does not home ownership violate Marxist dogma on the accumulation of private wealth? "We solved that problem," declared the deputy head of Poland's Housing Authority. "We now consider housing to be personal property like books or clothing. Marx had nothing against that type of possession...
...Institute is trying to help us not to re-invest the wheel once we get to Washington. I hope I'll get a head start over my colleagues," Steelman said yesterday...
...slight, revenue-sharing cash will build swimming pools and tennis courts. Edina, Minn., will use part of its $160,000 to carve out bicycle paths. Less affluent North Little Rock, Ark., is badly in need of improved drainage and sewerage facilities, but its mayor, William Laman, is determined to invest part of the city's $500,000 in Christmas decorations. In Los Angeles, which gets a $35 million share, Mayor Sam Yorty wants to use some of the money to build a huge maintenance center to house such municipal property as police cars, printing presses and school supplies; critics...
What is happening is that the work ethic is undergoing a radical transformation. Workers, particularly younger ones, are taking work more seriously, not less. Many may have abandoned the success ethic of their elders, but they still believe in work. Young and old are willing to invest more effort in their work, but are demanding a bigger payoff in satisfaction. The University of Michigan Survey Research Center asked 1,533 working people to rank various aspects of work in order of importance. "Good pay" came in a distant fifth, behind "interesting work," "enough help and equipment...
...films, like D'Urville Martin, admit the films are low quality. But Martin claims: "Black films are getting better." He attributes the poor quality of the films to a lack of initial capital from the black community. "Some of these people who are criticizing black movies have money to invest in black films," he complained. "But it's impossible to get any money out of them for a black film...