Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When British Yachtsmen Alan Warren and David Hunt limped across the finish line 14th in a field of 16 Tempest-class sailboats, they looked their not-so-good ship Gift 'Orse in the hull, set the fiber-glass beast afire and sank it in Lake Ontario. The 22-ft. sailboat (worth $10,000 new) had been damaged during shipment to Montreal and had served Britannia poorly. Said disgusted Skipper Warren: "She was lame: kindness called for us to put her down." The task proved almost Olympian. Paint thinner sloshed on the decks to fuel the blaze evaporated before Crewman...
Though many of the recent impediments to vigorous industrial expansion -heavy corporate debt, tight money markets, huge surplus capacity-are now fading, the extent of increases in business spending this year is still uncertain. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, believes that business spending has lagged -largely because of the general uncertainty in recent years. Greenspan expects capital expenditures this year to increase about 5% in constant dollars over last year and says that "the 1977 capital investment outlook is exceptionally good." According to the Commerce Department's latest survey of business spending intentions, plant...
...BUSINESS & TV), 224 guests gathered in a dazzle of diamonds and a cloud of pastel-tinted chiffon and crepe. Among them were Lady Bird Johnson, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Telly Savalas (star of Kojak, the Queen's favorite TV program), Olympic Skater Dorothy Hamill and White House Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan, who escorted TV's Barbara Walters...
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON Directed by ROBERT ALTMAN Screenplay by ROBERT ALTMAN and ALAN RUDOLPH...
...inflation -surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7%, astonishing for a huge, mature economy. Last week a "flash" estimate circulated within the Government that the real G.N.P. increase during the current quarter might slow to a rate of about 3%. While such early estimates are often unreliable, Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economic adviser, said on ABC's Issues and Answers: "I think the evidence is fairly clear that the acceleration is slowing down...