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After the election, when it looked as if Carter and Burns were on a collision course over whether to stimulate the economy, there was speculation that Burns would try to thwart any presidential attempt at fiscal pump priming by tightening up sharply on credit. In recent weeks the Federal Reserve has indeed begun raising short-term interest rates-to try to rein in what it considers an overly rapid growth in the money supply now that inflation is bumping back up to double-digit levels. The Federal Reserve's move toward tighter credit, while welcomed by businessmen who share...
...ground with Carter in the way he was with Ford, whom he had known for years. Overlooked in most of the speculation about the extent of Burns' clout in the new Administration is the possibility that Carter could be deftly stroking the Federal Reserve chairman in an attempt to influence him. Carter needs Burns' help if he is to meet his goal of balancing the budget by 1981. Carter also appreciates Burns' ties with businessmen. Says one veteran Fed watcher, William LeFevre, senior analyst of Wall Street's Granger & Co. brokerage house: "Burns is Carter...
Defense attorney Lewis Gerwitz said yesterday the action was "an attempt to slap down the people" but the prosecution "never expected the kind of community support the kids...
Home Free's plot is aimless. The lack of focus--if intentional--may be an attempt to symbolize Gene's restless drifting, but again, it could have been handled more deftly. Wakefield is continuously showing him moving, from one university to another, one lover to the next, one town to the next. Everything moves but the plot--which is relentlessly stagnant. Everybody has a threshold of boredom. Home Free surpasses even the highest tolerance for sluggishness in fiction...
Some OPEC leaders have tried to close the rift, but so far without success. The latest attempt was made by President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. In a fast-paced tour of the Middle East, Perez sought to persuade his warring OPEC colleagues to accept a compromise. His proposal was presumably along these lines: the Eleven would forgo the 5% price increase scheduled to go into effect in July; in return, so the speculation goes, the Saudis and Emirates would allow their prices to rise, gradually closing the 10% differential...