Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upper hand over national thinking." Complained Nazareth's Communist Mayor Tawfiq Zayad: "Many of Koenig's recommendations are already official policy. We are constantly spied on, we are discriminated against in the schools, our land is confiscated, and there are no government industries in the Arab sector." Even though Koenig's recommendations were considered unacceptable in Jerusalem, Haim Kubersky, Director-General of the Interior Ministry, supported Koenig's right to make them. Said Kubersky: "A Jewish majority in Galilee is a legitimate goal." Perhaps. But if anything seemed bound to stir up the kind of political...
Downward Revisions. The number that caused all the stir is a complex mathematical composite of twelve* important economic indicators. Of these three were largely responsible for the drop: the layoff rate in the manufacturing sector (it rose), the length of the average work week, and the dollar value; of contracts and orders for new plan and equipment (both declined). But Julius Shiskin, commissioner of labor statistics, believes there are technical aberrations in the layoff and work-week statistics and that after recalculation they will be corrected for the better. Other factors taking the sting out of the August index drop...
...precise explanations of how they would deal with the difficult choices in managing the complex economy, both candidates clearly staked out their main areas of emphasis. They are traditionally those of the two parties. Ford stressed restraint in federal spending, resulting in tax reductions and stimulation of the private sector of the economy. Carter placed greater emphasis on putting more people to work by stimulating the economy to a greater degree than would Ford; he charged that Ford failed to appreciate that unemployment is not merely statistics, but "touches human beings...
...Ford wins, predicted Sprinkel, he will continue to 1) reduce inflation, 2) create more jobs in the private sector, 3) "follow a stiff line" on increases in federal spending, 4) maintain a moderate rate of growth in the money supply, 5) avoid wage or price controls, and, perhaps, 6) propose a further tax cut. This program might take a while to produce more economic growth, but, Sprinkel says, would avoid the danger of spurring runaway inflation...
...rally well represented the broad spectrum of the TFAA's supporters, including the Harvard Employee Organizing Committee, Radcliffe Union of Students, February First Movement, supporters of progressive kitchen worker Sherman Holcombe, and a TFAA spokesperson. This rally called attention to a variety of grievances felt by many sectors of the University population. For example, active discrimination had been exposed in the Harvard kitchens by Sherman Holcombe (and was discussed at the rally by one of his supporters), where the University was following a policy of non-posting of job opportunities and showing favoritism for young, white males. Sherman Holcombe...