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...home, Andropov faces an economy plagued by mismanagement, low labor productivity and sluggish technological progress. The economic growth rate has been steadily declining, and food shortages are growing more acute...
...nation is racked by the highest unemployment rate in 42 years. Recovery remains elusive, as was demonstrated by last week's economic news, a maddeningly familiar mixture of plus and minus signs. The pluses: lower interest rates, higher housing starts, more stock-market exuberance. Big minus: very sluggish production. The Congress to be chosen next week will have to decide how to trim gargantuan budget deficits that threaten to choke off the recovery whenever it does come...
...crime was a distant second at 22%. The Democratic state committee is distributing a newsletter labeled the "Reagan Recession Watch" to every Democrat running for any kind of office in California and to 60,000 party activists. It is crammed with doleful statistics on unemployment, falling business investment and sluggish consumer spending...
...generation ago, a national rail strike might have paralyzed the country. Last week's walkout, however, was no crippler: both the sluggish economy and the diminishing role of rail transport blunted its impact. In the Northeast, service was relatively unaffected since the region's major line, Conrail, was not struck by the engineers. The Southern and the Family Lines systems, the two major railroads in the South, drafted supervisors and other skilled personnel to operate the trains, and most major runs were made...
Once in office, Palme hopes to apply his party's free-spending credo as a panacea for Sweden's sluggish economy. He promised to cancel planned cuts in sick pay and to increase funding for child-care centers. Unemployment compensation and pensions will be raised to keep up with inflation. In addition, Palme has proposed a mammoth $320 million government investment scheme to build new roads, bridges and housing projects that he believes will generate up to 40,000 new jobs. To finance the programs, the Social Democrats want to hike the country's 21.5% sales...