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European governments loom especially large in labor negotiations. Because the French government employs 25% of the country's labor force and the Italian government 12%, they wield a tremendous influence on wage policies. Under the complicated French labor code, special labor courts handle all grievances, and each plant is required to have an employee committee sitting as advisers to management. Called the Comité d'Entreprise, it can be anything from a great help to a hair shirt, meets at least monthly with plant managers and can have the company's books audited at any time...
...amid diminished Southern opposition, will probably increase this number by another 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 by next year's elections, out of an estimated maximum possible total of 5,000,000 Negro votes in the South. When Negroes achieve their full political potential, they will wield a powerful influence; they comprise more than 30% of the adult population in five of Alabama's eight congressional districts, in three of Mississippi's five districts, and in three of South Carolina's six districts. Although so far, pitifully few Negroes hold office in the South...
Many of Fleming's knottiest problems relate to these 82 men and to their potential successors. The University gives him some rough guidelines in this area, but he and the senior members of the Department wield an enormous amount of discretion. Consequently, appointment practices differ from department to department...
...Jack Connor to sell his policies to the nation's businessmen, Bill Martin and Fred Deming to deal with the international moneymen, and Ackley to pick the brains of the nation's economists. In the coming skirmishes over money policy, these few men are destined to wield more and more power...
...rangy, mild-mannered mechanical engineer who seriously insists to his employees that he wants "work to be fun" -and sets something of an example by putting in an 8:30-to-6 day, rarely taking work home at night or on weekends. But he knows how to wield both the ax and the scepter-and he has found enough time in ordinary work days to wield both so well that the once-slumbering Westinghouse has leaped to life. When he took over after the resignation of the late Mark Cresap, says Burnham, "I didn't have to think long...