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In that mixed environment, Bradshaw sees the need for each element to perform the function that it does best. As Bradshaw wrote in the February Fortune: "We should not strive to bring about more government intervention in economic matters, but we surely need to make that intervention more rational. " Bradshaw's prescription: Government must set the overall goals and signal to industry what it wants done. Then, with a minimum of federal interference, industry should get on with the job of accomplishing those goals.
That may or may not happen. But the energy crisis demonstrates once again that the U.S. no longer can afford the luxury of having the Federal Government and the business community regard one another as adversaries to be wounded at every turn.