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...said. "There will be more inflation in our future than in our past because of our bipartisan commitment to high employment. Signs of economic weakness will get a faster Government response than in the past, and both business and consumers know it. This assurance will give an upward bias to wages and prices." In sum, businessmen and consumers will go on spending during a slide because they will take it for granted that the slump will be short-lived...
...first say something on the composition of the present group of Fellows. I think it shows some bias: all of us are officials or ex-officials. A few have teaching assignments in their home countries and one is working at the Ford Foundation. But none of us comes from East European countries or other "socialist" countries-although Fellows have in the past. Nobody could be qualified as "radical...
...particular difficulty lies in reconciling the dual role of student and journalist. Berkeley's Stringer Mark Gladstone is also assistant city editor of the Daily Californian and deeply committed to the strike on campus. "Staying objective is obviously impossible," he says. "The dilemma is to realize your bias and cover the event as fairly and completely as you can." Nevertheless, adds Yale Stringer Tom Warren, "the dual role of reporter-student often provides a latitude unavailable to members of the separate groups. Last weekend, behind police lines, I found myself the target of rocks and bottles thrown by demonstrators...
...aiming at a political bias in this," O'Brien said. "We're having the Harvard votes counted by a professor from the Divinity School so no one can say there was any funny business...
...form of journalism has been a growing political alienation to a stagnant, wasteful society. Historians will puzzle for years on the strangely a-typical developments among the children of a well-fed, money-obsessed American bourgeoisie. The Open Conspiracy, despite the obvious limitations of its gentle bias, and occasional over-sensationalization of its material, provides an interesting addition to a limited number of books on an exceedingly fascinating subject...