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...wage increase for at least 1 million workers, and for subsidized housing and other social projects, the Shah has canceled $7 billion worth of American and European military orders, including the controversial U.S. AWAC airborne warning system. He is also scrapping plans to build 20 nuclear plants, a modern railroad and a subway system for Tehran...
...post office to pick up their mail," said Richard E. Caves, Stone Professor of International Trade. "A university is a rather remarkable place. You hire professors and only a small percentage of work is prescribed.... I've always thought that's a funny way to run a railroad...
Conrail's president, Richard D. Spence, quit last June. So far, Chairman Edward G. Jordan, who is chief executive officer, has failed to find a replacement. Jordan, 48, concedes that few railroad pros would want the job because "it's a high-risk situation...
Conrail has managed to consolidate the 285 labor contracts that it inherited into only 35, and it has gained union approval to cut the crew on a freight train from four to three. Says Charles Swin-burn, a Department of Transportation rail expert: "If you had taken the best railroad management in the country-the Southern Railway's, for instance-I don't know whether they would have done anything differently from the Conrail management...
John N. Sullivan, the federal railroad administrator, warned last week that unless the railroads are allowed to become more competitive, in the next ten years they will face a shortage of $13 billion to $16 billion in capital required to keep roadbeds and equipment in shape. The best action that the Carter Administration could take in support of the railroads would be to apply at least a measure of the deregulation flexibility that is already freeing the nation's soaring airlines from the fetters of federal bureaucracy...