Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many businessmen feel that a private-sector summer job gives a teen-ager more meaningful training than its government equivalent does. Says Ted Bruinsma, president of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which has co-sponsored "First Break-Give a Kid a Job" for ten years: "This is a teen-ager's first glimpse of the business world. We want the experience to be a real...
...have to take a bath if the kid doesn't work out," says Terrence Brown, whose Philadelphia-based architecture and planning firm hired four teen-age boys interested in the building trades. Says Fred Kleisner of the Greater Washington (D.C.) Board of Trade: "What it tells the private sector is that the Federal Government is willing to give them an incentive to put a youngster to work this summer for the price per hour of a cup of coffee...
...talking about real money," said Grace last week as he suggested ways to cut as much as $137 billion in purported federal waste over three years. "And we have barely scratched the surface." The recommendations of his task force,* formally known as the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, have been submitted piecemeal during the past three months, and will be compiled in a 1,000-page summary report early this fall. Some are quite specific: as an example of the expense of federal medical facilities, the group cites a Veterans Administration hospital in The Bronx that...
...instinctively inclined to find fault and fat in social programs, are those designed to save more than $89 billion over three years in defense spending. Military pensions should be scaled back, the report says, so that they no longer amount to about twice the rate found in the private sector. Generous cost of living adjustments have allowed some officers who retired ten years ago to make more than those of equal rank on active duty, and more than those who retired recently. Even issuing payroll checks results in waste. Private businesses can do it for about $1 a check...
...doubtful that we could go back to a Congress of citizen legislators at this stage of our national life. But the drift toward a Congress of elected bureaucrats has touched off a profound philosophical confrontation. One side believes that all Government servants must be thoroughly divorced from the private sector so as to eliminate conflicts of interest and corruption. The other side argues that a Government of the people, by the people and for the people must have leaders who move back and forth between the private and public sectors. Without cross-pollination, this thinking goes, the Government loses touch...