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...economic consultant for the past 38 years, I am appalled at the damage my peers have done with their erroneous predictions [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, Aug. 27]. The blame must lie with the schools of business administration and their brash M.B.A.s. Their ardent embrace of econometrics and the computer has caused them to abandon the philosophical concepts of economics. Business schools should re-examine their precepts before the dismal science disappears...
...such contrived attempts at editorial balance, the spectrum among columnists does seem more brightly colored on the right. The dwindling band of liberal columnists, the liveliest of whom is Mary McGrory, frequently write like glum recyclers of views no longer in vogue. Right-wingers are apt to be more ardent proselyters, some using the eruditely disdainful style of arguing they learned on Bill Buckley's National Review...
...Reagan noted near the end of his speech, "Four years ago we raised a banner of bold colors-no pale pastels." Certainly there was nothing muted about what the President, or his party colleagues and their platform, had to say last week. As the ardent cheering for Reagan's acceptance speech swelled, even the balloons behaved. Red ones fell from nets on the ceiling, white ones rose from the floor...
...batch of 10,000 quickly sold out, the second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing. "We've had to set up an 800 line to handle the requests," burbles the team's attorney and representative, Noel Gould. Among the team's ardent supporters are White House Public Liaison Judi Buckalew, who has asked the athletes to autograph her copy, and California Governor George Deukmejian, who has a framed poster hanging in his Sacramento office. Explains Gould: "The commercial marketplace has finally caught on to what every sorority girl knows: that the best...
...annals of diplomacy, there are few suitors more ardent than Muammar Gaddafi. During his 15-year reign, the Libyan leader has proposed formal alliances with Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Sudan and Algeria. None of those marriages has endured...