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...million workplaces with just 1,200 inspectors -- down from a high of 1,388 in 1980. A strained operation at best, OSHA was stretched to the breaking point by Ronald Reagan, who came to office persuaded that businesses should police themselves. Under him, OSHA's budget fell one-fourth...
...unprecedented giveaway plan, which must be approved by parliament, calls for majority shares in 400 state-owned businesses -- accounting for one-fourth of production -- to be turned over to between five and 20 newly created private stock funds co-owned by Poles. Western investment houses would run the funds, which would be structured to resemble U.S. mutual funds, for growth and profit. Unlike the American model, which gives managers no direct power over how an individual company is run, the overseers of Poland's new stock funds would be able to restructure promising enterprises and liquidate poor performers...
...alarming was the attempted mobilization of three so-called round- out brigades, each of which had been scheduled to augment a regular Army division. Although the Pentagon had given all the units a C-2 rating, its second highest standard of battle readiness, the three brigades -- totaling 15,000, one-fourth of the Army Guard members summoned to active duty -- were declared unfit for combat by regular Army commanders and could not be sent to the gulf...
Balanced against those negatives is a fact of enormous importance in an era of federal austerity: on average, it costs only one-fourth as much to train an Army Guard member as it does to train a full-time soldier. That point was forcefully made last month in a letter to Cheney signed by 54 Senators from both parties. They charged that the Defense chief's plans to downsize the Guard "fail to recognize ((its)) cost-effectiveness . . . and, in effect, discards the Total Force policy at the precise time it has proven successful...
...Force consisting of the XVIII Airborne Corps reinforced with two armored divisions. The Pentagon would also proceed with its plans to close 225 military bases around the world and to tighten its procurement policies. All told, the current force of 2.1 million active-duty personnel would be reduced about one-fourth, roughly equal to the number of troops engaged in the gulf...