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...bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks those at the back to move up to the curb to avoid blocking traffic, then gets all singing and many dancing to his one-man version of the Beatles' "Twist and Shout." It is a happy inter-generational, inter-racial scene. Cars and buses scream by, and some beep...
...current inflation rate of 14%), and importers were ordered not to widen then-profit margins. To show that it, too, could cut back, the government announced that it was postponing $2.6 billion of budgeted spending. One of Mitterrand's aims was to help persuade unions to curb their wage demands...
Alan Greenspan, a New York economic consultant and sometime adviser to the Reagan Administration, is the board's only gold advocate. He believes that the U.S. can and should reinstate the gold standard if the Government manages to curb rising prices and restore the dollar's sta bility. Says Greenspan: "Once inflation has been conquered, the discipline of the gold standard would surely reinforce anti-inflation policies and make it far more difficult to resume financial profligacy...
...Communist leaders, Moscow last week declared that an "unbridled" campaign of "rabid propaganda" against the Soviet Union had been allowed to reach "dangerous limits" with impunity. Delivered personally to Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania by Soviet Ambassador Boris Aristov, the message called on Warsaw to take "radical steps" to curb the "malicious propaganda and actions hostile toward the Soviet Union...
...seven members of TIME'S Board of Economists generally agreed that Reaganomics can work-that the program can curb inflation and revive business growth-if it is given enough time and if Congress implements the full program. Greenspan warned that the policy will not really be in place until lawmakers pass...