Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists and businessmen who have been summoned to brief him about the economy have been impressed by his cold concentration. Last month in Plains, he listened to 16 of them for five hours straight?with one five-minute bathroom break. Only water was served. "Before we won, we served Cokes," said Carter, the closest he came to humor. Reports one participant, Economist Arthur Okun: "He is totally able to banish anything, any mortal concerns, like a crick in the backside or thirst or hunger or anything else." Adds Economist Walter Heller: "We call him 'Iron Pants...
...Government policies on the economy began during his undergraduate days at Georgetown University. After earning his bachelor's degree in 1948, he spent most of the next 20 years in various Government jobs, studying economics part time at Georgetown and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., 1960). During a brief stint as an associate professor at Indiana University in 1959-61, he originated the concept that the economic impact of the federal budget is best gauged by what the surplus or deficit would be if the economy were operating at a 4% jobless rate, which most economists then regarded...
Siegel was one of the 50,000 or more Americans who suffer from a little-known, and often misdiagnosed disorder called sleep apnea (literally, want of breath). During a single night, they may wake up 400 or 500 times. These interruptions are so brief, only a few seconds or so, that apnea victims are usually totally unaware of them and at a loss to explain the morning-after blahs. When these patients take their complaint to a doctor, they usually get no help. The problem is that the physician sees the patient in the daytime...
White's immediate family. But the author's journalism and classic children's books-Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little-have expanded that family by millions. Moreover, readers of the Letters of E.B. White may be purchasing a textbook at no extra price. In a brief note to the mother of a young writer, White counsels: "Tell Johnny to read Santayana for a little while, it will improve his sentence structure." Change Santayana to White and the advice will hold for generations...
...crash course in "How to be a Congressman" featured some of Harvard's biggest names as instructors. Government and Politics Professors Stanley H. Hoffman and Graham T. Allison led discussions of foreign policy earlier this week, and Otto Eckstein will repeat his Ec 10 routine this morning in a brief seminar on economic forecasting...