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...meanwhile, embarked on a national campaign to try to encourage such feelings. In Washington, New York Mayor Abraham Beame cited the ways in which the city had cut back: a reduction of almost 36,000 public jobs, a freeze on wage increases and new construction, a boost in the transit fare to the highest in the nation (50?). Ford's "bumper-sticker philosophy," said Beame, had "triggered hatred, disunity and confusion." New York Governor Hugh Carey lobbied his former colleagues in Congress, then at the end of the week he headed for the West Coast to try to convince...
...fifth largest source of diamonds (nearly $100 million). Its iron ore mines brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines. The coffee crop, most of it rotting on the bushes, will be one-fifth the size of last year's, and diamond production will also drop by more than...
...soon be given even greater independence to run various departments in the company or set up competitive ones. Within the immense federal and state governments, Macrae proposes a new form of market competition called "performance contracts." By this method, citizens will vote regularly for the private contractors-garbage collectors, transit companies and sewage disposal firms-that best deliver the services...
...Jersey; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority supervises commuter and mass transit. These agencies could serve as models for units to deal with other regional problems such as land use, air and water pollution and taxation. City Planning Commission Chairman John Zuccotti also contemplates a regional development authority that would plan orderly industrial growth and discourage one area from recruiting a business from another-a practice that wastes money and effort...
...between. During the midday break, they are paid time and a half for three hours that they may spend as they please: taking a snooze, going to the movies, tending bar. A more rational solution would be to hire part-time drivers for peak periods, but the Transit Authority claims that this would be even more expensive than paying employees for not working. The part-timers would have to be given all the hefty fringe benefits that the unions have wrested from the city...