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...implied guarantee of lifetime jobs in the companies that they joined fresh out of school. That security has bred one of the world's most contented work forces. Japanese workers rarely strike, and absenteeism is almost unknown. Unions lately have become more vocal. Wages climbed an average 18% last year???but, incredibly, productivity rose 14%. Japan's average wages, now 94¢ an hour, passed Italy's in 1969 and France's last year...
...C.N.O. Bud Zumwalt, 50, has thrown his energy into what he calls "people programs" throughout the service. Insisting that his men rate far higher than hardware, he even made a private deal with the Pentagon to take $20 million?enough to keep four or five destroyers functioning for a year???out of his budget if the Defense Department would match it and use the combined $40 million to build new housing units for Navy families. An admiral who would rather give his men new homes than sustain some ships is a novelty in the Navy...
Indeed, unlike most conservatives ?and many other politicians of assorted persuasion this year???Buckley attracted thousands of college-age volunteers. Humor helped. One of the party's founders, J. Daniel Mahoney, collected anti-conservative bromides into a rah-rah song...
Maybe. But in the meantime, the Bergman role will provide Gould with the incentive to stop unpacking his familiar bag of tricks. Until The Touch is ready for release?which means not for at least a year???he will still be on constant view in his U.S. films, enduring the endless comic agonies of contemporary American life. That will further reinforce the prevailing impression that he is the star of every sixth movie made in the U.S. If that is a slight exaggeration, then so, just now, is Elliott Gould...
Federal Government is funneling a record $268 million to local lawmen this year???four times last year's outlay. More controversially, Congress and state legislatures are considering measures that would allow police to expand wiretapping and enter suspicious dwellings without knocking. In most areas, public opinion has seldom been so pro-cop. A recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of Americans view crime control as their No. 1 priority, and even longtime dissenters are beginning to have second thoughts. Though many radicals still think of police as "pigs"?with some justification in a number of cities ?liberals...