Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food stamps are essential for the truly needy in Mississippi. "Maybe I'm different from most who call themselves Republicans around here," he says. "I'm a populist person, I guess." Clark rails against Reaganomics but supports a balanced budget, a strong defense and a vibrant private sector...
...growing concern over the rapid nuclear arms buildup. In the past, both the Corporation and the student-faculty-alumni ACSR voted against largely symbolic shareholder resolutions asking companies to curb their nuclear weapons work. They argued that nuclear arms policy was the province of the government, not the private sector. Last year, however, the ACSR approved several similar resolutions concerning GE, Du Pont, and AT&T, and the Corporation, not wanting to abruptly renege on past policy, abstained on strong messages to the three major companies...
...register resistance to the arms race, regardless of the details of a specific resolution. Likewise, many critics of the arms industry have pointed out that defense contractors do indeed influence nuclear decision-making, with their extensive lobbying and political contributions--which of course negates the position that the private sector ought to have nothing to do with nuclear policy...
...such move is liable to trigger harsh union reaction. In response to a relatively mild Kohl proposal for limiting public-sector wage increases, Monika Wulf-Mathies, leader of the country's 1 .2 million-member civil servants union, called the plan a "declaration of war," and threatened strike action if the proposal is carried out. Having long and patiently planned his parliamentary assault on the Chancellor's office, Kohl must now prepare for all the battles that his new job will entail...
...political system turned him toward the Republicans. McNamara points out that Tip knows better than most how to redistribute wealth but he doesn't know how to create it. Not surprising, considering that only five months out of Tip's 69 years were spent in the private sector...