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...policies are difficult to administer in practice. To make them work, governments must monitor hundreds of thousands of wage and price decisions. Moreover, past experience with controls, including the wage-price freeze imposed by President Nixon in 1971, shows that inflation returns once the restrictions are lifted. Says Economist Clifford Hardin, who was a member of the Cost of Living Council that oversaw Nixon's freeze: "Wage and price controls can't work. They are self-defeating...
...conference in Washington last week, the National Academy of Sciences not only signaled its agreement with that view, it issued a 500-page report specifying just what is meant by eating right. "Our committee's recommendations should not be regarded as assuring a cancer-free life," said Dr. Clifford Grobstein, University of California biologist and chairman of the NAS panel that released the two-year study, but "by controlling what we eat we may prevent diet-sensitive cancer." Among the recommendations...
...Jersey, Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick defeated Jeffrey Bell, and will be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams after his Abscam conviction. Bell, 38, a onetime Reagan speechwriter who defeated four-term Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary only to lose the general election to Bill Bradley, spent nearly three times as much as Fenwick ($2 million, vs. $700,000) and accused her of being too liberal. Fenwick, 72, a pipe-smoking four-termer who has never lost an election, is an old-line Republican whose TV ads insisted that she "stands...
That additional evidence could also come from the Awash River valley. Last fall's expedition found the area Uttered with fossils - remnants of elephants, hippos and pigs -some of them dating back 6 million years. Says Anthropologist Clifford Jolly of N.Y.U.: "There seems to be enough material there for 20 expeditions." One of them will be led by Clark. This fall, he plans to return to Awash in hopes of push ing "knowledge of human origins even deeper into the past." And perhaps un earthing even humbler skeletons in the human closet. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Tom Johnson/San...
...Interpretation of Cultures, by Clifford Geertz...