Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Uppermost in our minds" were three "haunting questions" posed by Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, the fund's managing director. The problems: 1) Is it possible to halt inflation in a world so anxious for expansion? 2) Can the ravenous capital appetites of underdeveloped countries be appeased without further inflation (see below)? 3) How can world currencies, undermined by inflation, be stabilized...
...Just the man to revive Conservative enthusiasm," acknowledged the left-wing New Statesman. But the Economist thought the appointment "a mistake," forecasting that so robust and ambitious a spokesman would tend to report not what the constituencies want but "what he personally thinks they ought to want." Either way, Hailsham would soon be heard from, doing his provocative utmost to arrest what he calls "a fall in the tone of public controversy...
...highest priority simultaneously for heavy industry, for consumer goods and for agriculture, and bases its hopes of fulfillment not on basic expansion of plant but on increased efficiency-to be won simply by decentralizing and streamlining the vast Soviet economic bureaucracy. Mikoyan, says Bialer, is too smart an economist and businessman to believe in such fantasies. Shortly before Khrushchev vowed that in five years Russia would be producing more meat, milk, butter than the U.S., Mikoyan was saying privately in Vienna: "I know the living standards of Western Europe are three times as high as ours and America...
...conservative opinion favored changes in the law. The Times declared: "Adult sexual behavior not involving minors, force, fraud or public indecency belongs to the realm of private conduct, not of criminal law." Said the Spectator: "The present law on this point is utterly irrational and illogical." The London Economist thought that "private homosexual behavior between adults does no medical harm to themselves and no harm of any sort to others." Also in support of changing the law were the Church of England, which found the report "thorough, courageous and liberal," and a Roman Catholic spokesman who said that the Wolfenden...
...like irresponsible labor leaders," he cried before the St. Louis Advertising Club last year. "Within the Teamsters international union . . . we have no room for dishonest people." As a guest lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last year, he lectured Economist Sumner Slichter's class on the economics of collective bargaining...