Word: economist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Added to that was the sudden re-emergence early in the week of a quartet of octogenarian revolutionaries, among them economist Chen Yun and former President Li Xiannian. This seemed to indicate that Deng was seeking support against Zhao from the very men he had once sidelined for resisting his economic reforms. Analysts in Beijing feared that Deng had cast his lot with this ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good...
Zeckhauser, an economist and one of the school's leading quantitative professors, says there was still much disagreement among the faculty about the content of the ethics course, with skeptics fearing that the course may end up having little substance...
Goldman responded, "I know it's hard to believe. It's not anti-Soviet. I'm looking at it as an economist...
...Izvestia correspondents probed Goldman, apparently trying to find out if the economist only expected Gorbachev to fall, or wanted him to as well...
...Many economists foresee bleak prospects for millions of Americans no matter what the Federal Reserve does next. Noting that wages jumped a strong 0.7% in April despite a rise in unemployment, some experts argue that the Federal Reserve must push interest rates higher to keep inflation from heating up. But opponents of that prescription say it would do more harm than good. "The greatest threat to the economy now is not inflation, but recession," says Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover Trust in New York City. "If the Fed doesn't relax its grip within two to four months...