Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as the service industries, which employ the majority of workers and change very little during boom or recession. Thus the production index has dropped 7-4% in the past year, even though there has been nothing like a 7% drop in all economic activity. Says a Government economist, "People take a 1point drop in the industrial index as being more serious than...
...fiscal policies that have halted the drain on Britain's gold and dollar reserves and stabilized the pound. The pound dipped briefly, then steadied at $2.81 as Heathcoat Amory reiterated his determination to defend sterling. "Nothing whatever will take precedence," he said. At week's end the Economist was commenting reassuringly: "This has been primarily a politicians' and administrators', not an economists' quarrel...
...poor quality of East German equipment purchased with Soviet credits, have left hundreds of East German cars and other machines sitting forlornly idle in a huge vacant lot in the center of Belgrade. The only solid benefit Yugoslavia has got out of Russian aid, declared one disillusioned Yugoslav economist last week, was a loan: $30 million in gold and hard currencies...
...tactics had aroused cold hostility in British officialdom. From the start, Britain had jibbed at Mintoff's costly economic conditions for integration. In a 1,000-word cable Lennox-Boyd bluntly warned the Maltese leader that he had "recklessly hazarded" the whole integration plan. Snapped the London Economist, hitherto a cautious partisan of integration: "Let Mr. Mintoff be left in no doubt that he is demanding from Britain too high a price for something that Britain does not much want...
...project arose from three high-level discussions held last year under the auspices of the cathedral and attended by such laymen as White House Economist Gabriel Hauge, Journalists Walter Lippmann and James Reston, Industrialist Paul Hoffman, and such clergymen as Washington's Episcopalian Bishop Angus Dun and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Behind closed doors, they discussed Christian responsibility in economics, international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer...