Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attack unemployment by making the Government the employer of last resort and which he considered inflationary in its original form. He has also argued for some form of jawboning as well as wage and price guideposts to help control inflation. Whenever possible, however, he prefers to let the private sector work by itself, free of Government restraints. In fact, while Schultze remains every bit the zealous social reformer that he was as Lyndon Johnson's Budget Director, he has lately been preaching a free-market version of social activism. He has urged the Government to rely less...
...testimony earlier this year before a Senate subcommittee on the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, and in the Godkin Lectures on the essentials of government delivered at Harvard last month, Charles Schultze spelled out some of his ideas on the different roles of government and the private sector...
There remain nagging problems at home. Despite what appears to be a record grain crop in 1976 (about 223 million metric tons), Brezhnev was forced to announce this fall that he intends to plow $228 billion more into the farm sector in the next five years, acknowledging that this would crimp other sectors of the economy. He attacked shortcomings in efficiency and quality, and the "puny, partial improvements" in production of consumer goods, but offered little hope for improvement...
More startling are the social changes. Since my card will go to no more than half a dozen or so bona fide nuclear American families, it has been selected with little thought for that sturdy but dwindling sector of the populace. The other folks require a special kind of protocol. On my list, for example, are a number of unmarried men and women who are living together. A single card will go to each couple; it will be enclosed in an envelope addressed to both. What about single women who are practically living with married men? Two cards, individually addressed...
...could be at a point where presidential attitude will mean more than a new program, where the White House interest could count more than additional spending. The main engine of this nation remains the private sector. It is fueled by vision and inspiration as well as gain...