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...countless other newspaper bargaining sessions, the sticking points in New York were job security and automation. The city's publishers have been trying for more than 15 years to revamp their antediluvian production methods and eliminate wasteful staffing practices, but the craft unions, fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted. In March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning...
Social Reforms. Carter has been unsuccessful so far in his attempts at major change, even though some of his programs have been praiseworthy. His highly touted welfare reform, originally an ambitious $20 billion effort to revamp the nation's tangled and scandal-ridden welfare system, was trimmed back by the President because of the cost-cutting mood on Capitol Hill. But efforts to enact even the truncated $14 billion version collapsed last month. Parts of the urban program have not even been sent to Congress. The National Development Bank, intended to underwrite businesses in economically depressed areas, stands...
...White House at last seems aware of its shortcomings and has fought off what looked like a temptation to hunker down in dismal self-pity. It has begun working hard to improve its image and revamp its management techniques. The Administration's capacity for following through on its program proposals has been bolstered by the promotions of Tim Kraft and Anne Wexler to important White House staff positions. Public Relations Expert Jerry Rafshoon has been put to work full time to burnish Carter's image...
...over in Canada and Quebec, and that will not stop. If we're not there in 1983, we're going to be very close to a new setup which would incorporate a new Quebec, more self-governing than other entities in Canada, and to a chance to revamp the rest of Canada. Personally, I think we're going to win the referendum. The margin I don't think will be that much, but one thing could emerge. There could be a very strong majority of the 81 % French population in Quebec, which could be diminished...
...those ratings that led NBC President Herbert Schlosser to revamp completely his personnel lineup last fall and hand out all the pink slips, including many to top executives. When the new crew failed to improve matters, Schlosser's boss, RCA Chief Edgar Griffiths, decided to act. About a month ago, RCA Vice President George Fuchs was dispatched to offer Silverman Schlosser's job. Silverman was given more money than he was getting at ABC-$500,000, v. $350,000-but money was only part of the inducement, and doubtless the smaller part at that. What lured Silverman...