Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program should represent a wide cross-section of the College, the Faculty Committee tries to keep the Scholars as diversified a group as possible. Though the English department, and especially the creative writing field, is always well represented, the present group of Scholars includes as well a historian, an economist, a government major, and even a biologist...
Hence by 1942 a physician, a psychiatrist, a statistician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a lawyer, and an economist had been added to the permanent staff. By then, the Center of Alcohol Studies had become a distinct unit of the Yale Laboratory of Applied Physiology...
...invoked twelve times, has been actually successful in only three of them. Often the unpopularity of the injunction with union officials has delayed arbitration when it should have facilitated it. In place of this clumsy, unpopular procedure, Congress should authorize a plan similar to the one recently proposed by economist Sumner Slichter. Such an act would give the President a variety of choices more effective than present injunction powers...
Salazar's corporative system binds the nation's economy, from farming to foreign trade, into tight, firmly controlled corporations or syndicates. Though Economist Salazar has won from friend & foe a reputation for selflessness and honesty (he promises to turn his pockets inside out when, and if, he resigns), the system's complexities and red tape have produced much graft. In his Cabinet are 15 ministers, but Dr. Salazar ultimately makes all the hard decisions himself, occasionally lectures government officials, and Portugal's industrial and business leaders with dry, essay-like speeches which he laboriously composes himself...
Where does recession end and depression begin? New Dealing Economist Robert Nathan defines a depression as a sharp decline that lasts a few years. A decline that lasts only six months to a year and a half could be called a recession. To Nathan, depression means 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 unemployed (v. 1,200,000 today); recession means 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 unemployed for six to 18 months. Another New-Fair Dealer, Economist Leon Keyserling, describes a recession as a "short-run downturn of moderate or even large proportions." The Commerce Department...