Word: sectoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trudeau has responded to Canada's economic crisis with a program of public-sector wage restraints, holding pay hikes to 6% in 1983 and 5% in 1984. But the glaring problem, says Laurent Thibault, vice president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, is that "the government is so overburdened by debt that it can't afford to stimulate the country. Business isn't going to do it. That leaves exports...
Headlee, who gained his fame primarily in the private sector and as the author of a Prop 2 1/2-type tax amendment, came fron nowhere to snatch the Republican nomination from Milliken's hand-picked successor. And so, in the wake of his self-destruction, it is hardly with absolute confidence that Michigan's pundits have tapped Democratic candidate James Blanchard as the hands-down winner in today's election...
...tosses aside the "no-experience" charges a bit too casually The Senate after all can't be retooled like your average factory. But Lautenberg's skill as an organizer and creative thinker has been proven in the unforgiving world of private sector competition. His liberalism is tempered by a healthy sense of realism and understanding of how business works in New Jersey and the nation. The Lautenberg campaign at first merely a struggle to introduce his name--illustrate the candidate's capacity to transfer profit-making instincts to the game of politics...
...success for Cuomo lies in getting his voters to the polls. Lehrman's conservative, lower-taxes, tough-on-crime voters will vote on their own. But there are more New Yorkers a shade to the left than a shade to the right of the political spectrum. Cuomo has every sector of the old New Deal coalition behind him, and that is more than a majority...
...Clark-Commonwealth collaboration is part of Chicago's Adopt-a-School program, designed to shore up urban public schools at a time of financial crisis with aid from the private sector. The ground rules: companies must make a one-year commitment, promise to work with students on the average of once a week, and develop programs that try both to improve student motivation and beef up the basics of reading, writing and mathematics. So far this year, 102 companies and organizations have adopted 116 of Chicago's 604 public schools. Says Superintendent Ruth Love of the program...