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...Delphic Questions. Several things are suggested; none is certain. Kate and Anna may have had a lesbian relationship. Deeley may once have known Anna beyond the voyeuristic intimacy of looking up her white thighs at a party. Did Deeley or Kate go with Anna to the film Odd Man Out'? Delphic questions-Delphic answers, scattered clues to nowhere except perhaps the murky recesses of the subconscious mind...
Testifying before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, Burns was wreathed in his customary cloud of pipe smoke, but seemed somewhat less Delphic than usual. He pledged that the Federal Reserve would provide enough money and credit for "healthy economic expansion," but added that the board was already being "quite generous" in supplying funds. "The banks are flooded with money," he said. "What we have is not a shortage of money but a shortage of confidence [among borrowers]." Expanding the money supply at an annual rate above 5% to 6% for any long period, Burns said, intensifies inflationary pressures. Last year...
...money supply. In his speech to the National Association of Manufacturers three weeks ago, the President said that Burns had given him a "commitment" that the Federal Reserve Board would "provide fully for the increasing monetary needs of an expanding economy." The following week. Burns, in a typically Delphic passage in a speech, left policywatchers guessing as to whether any such deal had been struck. Most common guess: no. Besides, Burns is only primus inter pares on the Reserve's twelve-man Open Market Committee, which regulates the money flow. A number of anti-inflation hawks on the committee...
...months that followed the overly successful Playboy parody, they served dinners there almost every weekend which stretched the limits of gourmet excess. Cases of incredible wines were flown in from France. And the entire interior was fixed up to greater-than-Hearst elegance, including the repair of the rare delphic tiles that cover the walls downstairs, at a cost of about...
Thieu approved President Nixon's May 14 speech before it was delivered. But partly as a result of subsequent reporting out of Washington, he discovered hidden nuances that disturbed him. In the somewhat Delphic address, Nixon had talked of establishing "procedures for political choice that give each significant group in South Viet Nam a real opportunity to participate in the political life of the nation." That could mean, among other things, Viet Cong participation in future elections and thereafter in a future government. Thieu has gone as far as that, although only on the difficult condition that the Viet...