Word: economists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tight money' some of the Democrats were hollering about." said a Treasury economist, "today we would have prices 5% higher than they are; we could be in an inflationary crisis, and we would be in the middle of a foreign run on gold...
...London News Chronicle concluded that Strauss had been "more of a fool than a knave"; the Economist decided that West Germany's disregard of foreign susceptibilities was probably more lack of imagination than indifference. More serious was the widespread suspicion that the Strauss plan was Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's way of serving notice that if the Western powers failed to stand up to Russia over Berlin, or otherwise took insufficient note of German concerns, West Germany would make political and military arrangements outside the alliance...
...followed him from billet to domestic billet-Washington, Ottumwa, Iowa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Baltimore, methodically getting a new job, buying secondhand furniture and setting up house in each post. While he was on duty in the Pacific, she lived in a boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running...
...latest essay, Economist Ma was allowed to attack one of the most sacred of official Peking views-that an ever-increasing population is a source of Chinese strength. If China is to advance at the pace its leaders have set, argued Ma, it must raise the quality of its population -i.e., the productivity of its labor force -and control its quantity. For example. he demanded, how can China think that 20,000 men can do the work of one Soviet electronic computer? If China's population explosion is not contained, he went on, "sooner or later the peasants will...
...busy as alchemists in their laboratories, U.S. economists last week gazed upon the bubbling statistics of U.S. business, tried to discern exactly what they meant. Before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, four top economists forecast that business activity in 1960 will certainly meet-and perhaps exceed-the rosy predictions made in the President's Economic Report. George Cline Smith, chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp., and Peter Henle, assistant research director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., agreed that Ike's forecasts of a national output of $510 billion in 1960 is right on the line. Martin R. Gainsbrugh...