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Pruning such an unprofitable state-run enterprise may make economic sense -- the Lenin shipyard soaked up $18.6 million in subsidies last year -- but because the government's move was so obviously aimed at Solidarity, it threatened to set off a fresh round of political turmoil. The maneuver raised further doubts about whether the government would stick to the offer it made in August to Solidarity in exchange for ending labor unrest: "round-table" meetings during which the legalization of Solidarity could be discussed...
...Shaocheng of the ministry's emergency rescue office said he could only confirm state-run radio's earlier report that more than 600 people were killed...
...should have felt more pleased than Maurice Allais, France's most eminent economist. During the country's postwar reconstruction, when French economists of nearly every stripe endorsed nationalization, Allais took exception. Still, he became an influential contrarian voice in the making of France's industrial policy, arguing that even state-run monopolies are most efficient when they set prices and allocate resources according to market forces...
...peak of 560,000 to 143,000 today, and an estimated 30% to 40% of the homeless are mentally impaired. The release program was intended to lead to more small facilities, where the poor could receive affordable outpatient care. Yet 70% of the $6 billion spent each year on state-run mental health programs still goes to institutions. A greater proportion must go to promoting neighborhood clinics and group homes. What is more, the operators of these clinics must reach out aggressively to get people off the streets, especially in cold weather. They must trek to the parks, bus depots...
Such land leasing has already been introduced experimentally in some areas, with great success. Pravda reported two weeks ago that a group of families permitted to lease part of a state farm in Belorussia increased onion production more than six times that of the state-run enterprise's output two years earlier...