The economy should be organized in a decentralized manner, with the emphasis on private-sector initiative.

The Department of Homeland Security has greeted this private-sector initiative with only tepid interest.

Its function is to assist private-sector initiatives to capitalize on advanced technology.

In a departure from the first conference, held in 1981, the final declaration called for promoting private-sector initiative to help the poor nations.

The conference is thus solutions-focused as it explores the most promising public policy approaches and private-sector initiatives to enhance retirement security.

The combined value to taxpayers of this private-sector initiative was therefore some six times the capital support necessary to initiate the alternate service.

After the hearings, the commission will submit a report to Congress in the fall on how well the private-sector initiatives are working.

Instead, they say, it was to provide a forum for sharing information among professionals and organizing private-sector initiatives.

"This was a private-sector initiative to increase diversity, which is not a government mandate of quotas."

Second, I propose to make permanent the research and development tax credit to encourage bolder private-sector initiative in technology.