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Safe Stimulus. For all that, the U.S. can neither downplay nor ignore unemployment. What can be done about it? Robert Nathan, a Democratic member of TIME'S Board of Economists, argues that the Government could safely spend more to stimulate the economy, relying on rising productivity and tough controls to hold inflation down. Republicans reply that controls are ineffective against the type of inflation that results from excess demand fueled by giant budget deficits. But Washington could make at least one move to distribute the burden of unemployment more evenly. It could crack down harder on job discrimination based...
...race, according to a Boston Globe article published September 10 could go any way. But the article did not exactly downplay Nelson' chances--it ran under the headline "Three have the background, one has the impact." The one was Nelson...
Missouri politics is know for its tenacious and often dirty political campaigns and Eagleton admitted that he had to downplay his Amherst Harvard background during his early campaign. Most of Missuri's politicians are educated in state and I can recall several me occasions where opponents tried to criticize me for my Eastern Establishment academic credentials. While Amherst and Harvard are excellent academic institutions within their own spheres, my schooling was used as ammunition against me, and although I can't say it hurt me, I can't say my New England education helped me with the voters of Missouri...
...cash to conduct a registration drive-a traditional element in a Democratic presidential campaign. Nor do they work very comfortably alongside McGovern's operatives. Some labor leaders remain hawks. Says Joe Keenan flatly: "I support the President on the war." McGovern staffers, on the other hand, continue to downplay labor as if they think that they can win the election without its help. When the machinists' union offered to help out in Connecticut, a McGovern aide said that there was no need for labor volunteers. Complains a local official of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal...
Three months ago, MSI party headquarters in Rome's Palazzo del Drago sent new instructions to 94 local organizations reining in its swaggering street fighters. Members were to get haircuts regularly, shave daily, wear neckties, eliminate profanity and downplay nostalgia for the good old days of II Duce. No swastikas were to be smeared on synagogue walls or provocative marches made through Jewish neighborhoods...