Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renounced the finishing-school life she despised and was veering toward an intellectual and social-service career that would lead her even farther from her family and coddled background. After graduating from Oxford and earning a Ph.D. in economics from London University, Rose worked briefly as a government economist before devoting herself full time to helping the poor. In the working-class neighborhoods of Northeast London's seedy Tottenham district, Rose became a familiar figure, a tireless dispenser of charity (more than $40,000 from her own trust and stocks) who liked to affect an uneducated speaking style...
...price of Persian Gulf crude now stands at $10.50 to $11 per bbl., nearly triple the price a year ago. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, expects a drop of about $1 or $1.50 per bbl. by year's end. Philip Verleger Jr., an energy expert at Data Resources, Inc., would not be surprised if the price falls $2. A Nixon Administration economist looks even farther: "I calculate a $4 drop in oil from the Persian Gulf by 1976." Any of these scenarios would leave prices far enough above the pre-embargo level...
...Senate Finance Committee. In addition, the joint committee oversees the operations of the IRS, a job that involves double-checking the validity of every Government tax refund of $100,000 or more. Since 1964, the staff has been headed by Laurence N. Woodworth, 56, a self-effacing economist who joined the staff in 1944 and has become something of a legendary expert's expert in the staff warrens of Washington. "I think the committee members know," he says...
...Dunlop, for example, once indicated willingness to accept stand-by authority to reimpose across-the-board wage-price controls. Though Congress is moving instead to kill controls altogether (see following story), Dunlop's stand briefly upset other Administration planners, including Shultz, who want controls to die. One Government economist grumbles: "Dunlop would never have done what he has been doing before Shultz announced he was leaving...
...Prolonged inflation represents a failure, and that failure breeds edginess and mistrust. In time it becomes impossible for leaders to succeed because voters demand that government deal with inflation. Yet so various and insistent are the people's other special demands for higher government spending that inflation continues. As Economist Friedman writes: "In virtually all cases of major political upheaval in the postwar period, inflation has been a common element...