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Amazing, perhaps, but like any radical surgery, however necessary, inevitably painful. The new leanness of U.S. business means, above all, a crackdown on heavy payrolls. A large portion of the layoffs from restructuring have taken place in manufacturing. From 1979 to 1986, total U.S. manufacturing employment declined from some 21 million jobs to 19.1 million. But partly because of this slimming down, U.S. manufacturing productivity -- hourly output -- has risen by an average of 3.8% annually over the past five years, compared with 1.5% in the '70s. But no such productivity improvement is yet evident outside of manufacturing. Says Treasury...
Melendez says that of the votes for Offutt, a portion of these came from members who were fed up with both Offutt and Lane and so opted for the status...
Congress allotted the money to the city as part of the National Clean Water Act, which passed over President Reagan's two-time veto last week. The money will be distributed next October and is portion of $2.4 billion slated for water clean-up throughout the country...
...certain that European governments can quickly generate a sharp rise in domestic consumption merely by pouring more money into their economies. A portion of industrial capacity must be redirected from manufacturing products for export to satisfying local demands, and that takes time. Warned Board Member Guido Carli, former governor of the Bank of Italy: "I have doubts that in the short term it is possible to restructure the economies of countries like Germany and Italy, which for so many years have been export oriented...
...billion the Government was then spending on low-income housing. As the keystone of this effort, the Administration in 1983 introduced federal housing-subsidy vouchers that allow low-income families to rent housing wherever they can find it, at whatever price they can negotiate; the Government then subsidizes a portion of the cost based on a "fair market" price. The traditional federal subsidy program requires tenants to pay no more than 30% of their income in rent, and only for housing that matches a "reasonable" rent set by Washington...