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Thus Thatcher will press more re forms on the labor unions, including legis lation that would require union leaders to stand for re-election every five years and allow union members to opt out of auto matically paying dues to the Labor Party Declining industries such as steel, coal and shipbuilding will be urged to up productivity and modernize facilities. Besides selling more state-owned companies, she will allow some private utilities to compete with public ones. And in her belief that "property induces responsibility in society," Thatcher plans to permit more tenants to buy their government-built homes. hatcher...
...were a much smaller organization serving a much smaller popu- lation," Joltes said. "This year, with thegreater importance of the machines, we spoke inearnest...
...popular clamor, according to most Congressmen, is for legis lation to protect industries--and jobs--threatened by foreign competition. Reagan, an avowed free trader, tried to deflate congressional pressure last week by threatening to retaliate against several countries, including Japan, if they do not curtail unfair trade barriers against various U.S. products, ranging from leather shoes to canned fruit. But Congress will not be easily assuaged. Declares Louisiana Democrat Buddy Roemer: "My district says that America is Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sucker. Lead, Mr. President...
...Taylor fears that perhaps a third of his 12,000 employees would lose their jobs because of the resulting duplication of services. Both to head off First Chicago and to open the door to banks like New York-based Chemical, Continental attorneys last week were helping to draft legis lation that would permit a takeover by an out-of-state U.S. bank. Current Illinois law limits potential buyers to institu tions based in the state or in a foreign country...
...graders in Washington, D.C., for example-the Fitler experience has application far beyond Philadelphia. As Fitler Parent Carmela Dunyan puts it, "The school systems screamed against disciplinary actions until we had created a monster we didn't know what to do with. Then a segment of the popu lation wanted to go back. What we wanted was to have a teacher in control of a class and a principal in control of the school...