Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unaccountably, Nixon also assailed Cox, contending that he had been in favor of the Stennis plan, and that "we did not know until Saturday [Oct. 20] that he had changed his mind." Yet at the time Cox had released copies of correspondence with Charles Alan Wright, Nixon's counsel, which showed that Cox had raised eleven objections to the plan on the preceding Thursday and that Wright had acknowledged this the same day, then added in a Friday letter: "Further discussions between us seeking to resolve this matter by compromise would be futile...
...future prophesied that the boycott would trim at least 1% from their earlier forecasts of real growth. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes its flow by then, the shortages will have already done enough to prevent the economy from growing that much next year. He looks for at best a 1% growth in the gross national product-and at worst a 1% decline...
...exact size of the petroleum gap (estimates range from 2.5 million bbl. to 3 million bbl. daily of crude and refined products). Most important, there are no adequate models that might foretell how the U.S. economy will react to the first energy scarcity in its history. Explains Alan Greenspan, a consultant who frequently advises the Nixon Administration: "In classic forecasting, we have worked in a conceptual framework into which we have tried to put numbers based on history. But this is a whole new bird...
...English teacher. The star (Kay Ballard) spins through her numbers like a treadless tank. She lacks the remotest trace of that sweetly enveloping maternal musk with which Gertrude Berg so winningly invested her creation, Molly Goldberg, in the vastly popular radio and TV serials spanning the years 1929-1954. Alan Arkin has directed the show the way a bartender jiggles a martini shaker, apparently hoping that agitation will pass for action. As for the Great Depression during which Molly ostensibly takes place, traces of it are visible on the brows of the audience, but it effectively eludes...
Ellmann, Goldsmith Professor at New College in Oxford, notified the Administration of his decision late this summer. Alan E. Heimert, chairman of the English Department, said Wednesday...