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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harris has not won every contest. She tried publicly and unsuccessfully to get Oakley Hunter, Republican holdover chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association, fired when Fannie Mae refused to put as much money into low-income housing as Harris wanted. Says one congressional critic: "Her temper gets her in trouble.She fights so hard she loses patience with people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Tough Lady for HEW | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...months as chairman of the Fed, Bill Miller, 54, has been something of a maverick. He speaks freely to the press, signs most of his business letters Bill, and takes off his jacket on occasion at congressional hearings. A businessman and lawyer rather than an economist by training, he has been remarkably accurate in his economic forecasting. Known from the beginning as a determined inflation fighter, he has taken the position that the Fed should be dedicated to a long-term plan for reducing the inflation rate over the next five to seven years and should not react nervously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Maverick for Treasury | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...offer to become Treasury Secretary after two other candidates had turned down the job. (Another theory is that he has political ambitions.) It may also explain why he helped the Administration get the natural gas compromise bill through Congress last year−raising questions as to whether the chairman of the Fed should be getting into any subject as controversial as gas decontrol. But earlier this year, when the Administration tried to pressure him into raising interest rates, Miller flatly refused. Such high rates, he insisted, would be "unbecoming, unwise and unnecessary," and would run the risk of deepening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Maverick for Treasury | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...China shortly after World War II, he met his wife Ariadna, a White Russian living in Shanghai. After law school at the University of California and four years in a Wall Street law firm, Miller took a job at Textron Inc., the big Providence-based conglomerate, eventually becoming its chairman. During his 17 years running Textron, the company's annual sales grew from $383 million a year to $2.8 billion, and profits jumped from $14 million to $137 million. His spare-time interests range from golf to opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Maverick for Treasury | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...head of Coca-Cola's European operations. He became president of the Atlanta-based firm in November 1971, at a time when Jimmy Carter was Governor of Georgia, but quit less than three years later because he wanted to go back to Houston. There he served as board chairman of an investment banking company, Rotan Mosle Financial Corp. until 1977, when he went to Washington. He works long hours at the office but occasionally escapes with his wife Anne, and sometimes their-two college-age children, to the family ranch in Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Engineer for Energy | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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