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...Democratic policy: higher Government spending, temporarily larger budget deficits and an effort to persuade the Federal Reserve Board to increase the nation's money supply more rapidly. He also proposes a variety of Government inducements to private industry to step up hiring, including more money for on-the-job training programs and research assistance to develop promising technologies such as solar energy. Another Carter recommendation: an intriguing plan under which a company that would ordinarily lay off, say, 10% of its employees would instead keep all of them on the payroll for a shorter week−and the Government...
...presidency is no place for on-the-job training. I've always advocated the politics of substance, not the politics of style. All I know about him is the image...
...lessen chances for sexual harassment on the road, the coalition is demanding separate rooms for male and female drivers on overnight stops, and relay driving (with just one driver on each stretch of the run). The coalition's other demands: on-the-job training for women; no special tests for drivers already licensed in their categories by the state (women truckers charge that the tests are used to weed out female applicants) and adjustable seats and pedals so women cannot be disqualified for being too small to drive a large truck...
...information about a conspiracy among members of the Chilean general staff would come "through channels that I cannot reveal at this time," it would be more convincing if he revealed who overheard the generals agree to enter Allende's cabinet so that "one of us can get some on-the-job training." There is a great contrast between the methods of a book like I.F. Stone's Hidden History of the Korean War, which constructs a reinterpretation of the war by analyzing the internal contradictions of official sources, and those of this behind-the-scenes history that relies on privileged...
...pushed up underwriting losses. In addition, other property and liability insurers may have to settle an estimated record 1 million suits-twice as many as were filed five years ago-against companies that turn out allegedly faulty products. And though American workers were involved in 200,000 fewer on-the-job accidents in 1974 than in 1973, increased medical costs raised the insurers' bill for covering the 2.3 million accidents that did occur to $13.6 billion, a rise of $800 million over...