Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economist at Manhattan's Citibank, points out that business borrowing from commercial banks in the first nine months of this year rose at an annual rate of 15.1%, and borrowing by households is also at a record high. Borrowing by Government to finance budget deficits adds to the demand. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, singles out mortgage credit as "a monster loose in the system," devouring money. People are not only borrowing to build new houses but taking out second mortgages on existing homes to finance spending of various types. During the 1960s, Greenspan observes...
...Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan and Co., Inc.: "Carter's actions significantly increase the probability of recession...
...back up these testimonials, Psychologist Alan Abrams, a ten-year practitioner of TM, tested the emotions and psyches of 120 Folsom inmates, half of whom were meditators. Using a battery of psychological and personality tests, he found that neuroticism among the meditators decreased 50% on the average, hostility 22%, anxiety 60% and suspicion 27%. No significant changes were recorded for the nonmeditators. Perhaps the most convincing statistic of all is that out of 58 meditators who have been released from Folsom over the past two years, only two have returned. Folsom's average recidivism fate is 15% for prisoners...
...between the center's legs. After a successful play, teammates sometimes hug or slap each other on the bottom. The possible homosexual implications of these and other football rituals have long been noted by professional and amateur behavioralists alike. But none have studied the subject more closely than Alan Dundes, an anthropologist at the University of California in Berkeley. In his view, fanny patting and centering the ball are only the tip of the gay iceberg. Writing in Western Folklore, Dundes says that the "unequivocal sexual symbolism of the game" makes it clear that football is a homosexual ceremony...
...Alan B. Williamson, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English, said yesterday he also supported offering Brustein a post and had a "very favorable impression...