Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve years at the Federal Reserve Board, and Yale Professor William Nordhaus, 35. The three should make a compatible team. Philosophically Gramley and Nordhaus, like Schultze, can be expected to argue for vigorous federal action to combat high unemployment. Personally they also ought to get along well with the boss inasmuch as all three share a passion for outdoor sports: Schultze for backpacking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the aristocratic Gramley for polo and fox hunting. Nordhaus for cross-country skiing...
...Boss's Shadow. Gramley, who taught economics at the University of Maryland while Schultze was also on the faculty, describes himself as a "middle of the road, pragmatic, liberal economist." Despite his years at the Federal Reserve, he says "I am definitely not a monetarist [one who places prime importance on money supply]. The growth rate of the money supply is not the beginning and end of economics." He is regarded as one of Washington's best at economic forecasting, a field he will specialize in at the CEA. Nordhaus, bearded and bespectacled, calls himself "an economic theorist...
Though Schultze has promised the new members that the council will work as a team, there is a possibility that Gramley and Nordhaus will be lost in the boss's shadow. Schultze, a Keynesian economist who was Lyndon Johnson's Budget Director and later turned out a widely read series of critiques on the budget for the Brookings Institution, knows his way around Washington as well as anyone else in the Administration. Also, though he and Carter knew each other only slightly before the campaign, he has developed a remarkable rapport with the President. Economists who have attended...
When the United Mine Workers elected Arnold Miller president five years ago, ousting autocratic Boss Tony Boyle, the rank and file thought they had inaugurated an era of reform and tranquillity for their battered union. They could not have been more mistaken. After a brief period of harmony, hostilities resumed. They have not ceased. Now they threaten to topple Miller and ignite a potentially crippling nationwide coal strike next winter...
...raised innumerable, if minute, questions of rite and protocol. Who initiates the kiss? In a kiss between a man and woman, quite often it is the woman who makes the first move - offering her hand, inclining her cheek. But if the man is, say, the woman's boss or her husband's boss, she may wait until he leans forward into that critical distance with in which the kiss occurs...