Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program." Unless the White House gets tougher, some economists fear, the job of restraining prices will fall to the independent Federal Reserve Board and its Chairman Arthur Burns, who has repeatedly made it clear that he will tighten up credit rather than permit runaway inflation. Whatever else it might accomplish, that strategy would almost certainly result in slower growth and even higher unemployment...
Risky Game. Reaction in Europe to the dollar's plunge was mixed. Furious West German bankers charged that when they refused to bend to U.S. pressure and revalue the mark, Blumenthal resorted to stealth to accomplish his ends. They said he deliberately provoked the dollar's slide; the U.S., rasped the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, was playing "a selfish, risky game that shows little responsibility toward the world economy." In Britain, the Bank of England responded to the dollar's decline by abandoning a policy of keeping the pound at a level of $1.72. Instead, the government...
...reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such geniuses as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr. Says Director Charles Frankel, a philosopher: "We want to stand up and show the power of the humanities." For Executive Officer William Bennett, Research Triangle Park is just the place to accomplish that goal. Says he: "The people here have sold not only an environment but a state of mind...
This second objective was more difficult to accomplish than he'd hoped, however. Friedman said yesterday he spent a lot of time looking around the University for a job, but wasn't able to find one--partly, he said, because a lot of professors seem to have reserved researching spots for people on work-study grants, even though there aren't always such candidates for the posts...
...spending budget was inadequate to the needs of the economy. Lately the CBO has been digging into Carter proposals-and the reaction of Democrats has been equally pained. After assessing the President's energy plan, Rivlin announced that the Administration's estimates of what the program would accomplish were "overly optimistic." For example, the CBO found that savings on oil imports would be closer to 3.5 million bbl. daily by 1985 than the 4.5 million bbl. projected by the President. Said Rivlin: "There's been a lot of talk of sacrifice, but one just doesn...