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...think a more appropriate tag for Andrew Young would be "Young Butz...
Genuine Scrap. Josiah Bounderby (Timothy West) is the apostle of the creed, the poor boy who made good, a man of red-faced bluster and aggressive self-pity. "I'm a bit of dirty riffraff," he brags, "a genuine scrap of rag, tag and bobtail." His young wife Louisa Gradgrind (Jacqueline Tong, who played Daisy in Upstairs, Downstairs] is as much a victim of the times as her husband's workers. Her father (Patrick Allen), who runs what is thought to be a progressive school, has taught her to ignore all feeling and rely only on facts...
Commoner: If the marketplace worked, everyone would have a chance to say whether they wanted swizzle sticks or not. But it hasn't worked. When you buy that cheaper shirt made by petrochemicals, no one puts a tag on it saying this costs employment, pollutes the.air, uses energy in ways that are inefficient. No signals are given about the full-scale long-term social consequence of decisions made by the entrepreneurs...
...energy crisis. Says he: "The signals provided by the free enterprise system must be supplemented by governmental signals. Government must set the goals as well as the incentives and disincentives." Bradshaw would even accept Government price setting-but only on one product, crude oil, with the condition that the tag should reflect replacement costs...
...Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands of patients...