Word: economists
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...seasoned campaigner, Puyat has a solid reputation as an economist and business executive, is not tarred with the widespread charges of corruption leveled against Garcia's administration. In November, Garcia and Puyat will be matched against the Liberal Party nominees: earnest Diosdado Macapagal, who claims the mantle of the late great President Magsaysay, and his running mate Emmanuel Pelaez. Both are reform-minded enthusiasts who will campaign on a ready-made platform: "Throw the Rascals...
John E. Sawyer, economist, president-elect. Williams College LL.D...
...task force of 14 writers and photographers was at work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste-up. Many of the critical hours and major problems of the 100 days are glossed over or overlooked. Laos is dismissed with four pictures. The Cuban invasion (which occurred on the 87th day of the new Administration) is reduced...
...Lincoln Gordon, 47, a Harvard economist working part-time with Berle's task force, has become Kennedy's leading expert on Latin American economics. Gordon drew up the U.S. agenda for the July inter-American economic meeting approved last week by the Organization of American States...
...street as to the professional economist, the best barometer of inflation is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index, which charts monthly changes in the prices of some 300 items in a "market basket" bought by the average city dweller. Every time the index rises a half point or more, it triggers automatic wage hikes for 2,600,000 industrial-union members. By moving upward over the past two years (it is now at a record high of 127.5), the index has conditioned most Americans to believe that the U.S. is gripped by creeping inflation. Last week...