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...state's farmers. During his 2½ years in the bureau, Hillenbrand, previously a foreign correspondent, has reported many agriculture stories and developed a fondness for the men who farm. "They are some of the few Americans who really put the country ahead of making a buck," he says. "Many support the embargo; though, like Manhattan cab drivers, they never stop complaining about their...
...public confidence in the ability of economists to guide government to uninterrupted propserity was so high that the Nobel committee in Stockholm created an annual prize in the field. 1970 was the end of the so-called "Go-Go" years on the stock market, when anyone could make a buck, gasoline was still 35 cents a gallon, there was little unemployment and low inflation. Government could anything...
...left with the impression-indeed it is cultivated assiduously by the largest gaggle of public relations people ever to batten on the flank of culture-that art prices can only go up; the market has transcended its old uncertainty, whether the objects are million-dollar Titians or ten-buck trash "collectibles...
...however, even in the U.S. Government, that economic retaliation of any kind will provide enough pressure on Iran to force the hostages' release. Confides a Government economist: "There may be a lot of wishful thinking by the Administration on this. Businessmen are very resourceful. Wherever there is a buck to be made, there is always going to be a sizable group of clever people who will get around an obstacle, even an outright embargo." U.N. sanctions against trade with Rhodesia since 1966 and against arms sales to South Africa since 1977 have posed no insurmountable problems for either country...
That is the fervent chorus of A Message to Khomeini, an instant hit on WDLW, a Boston-area radio station. The song is part of the slick and quick hustle by schlock dealers nationwide to make a buck out of the crisis in Iran...