Word: economists
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, economist: On health care, on industrial concentration, on foreign policy, arms control and refugee matters, I don't think anyone strikes as many sparks and brings along as many people as Edward Kennedy...
...made U.N. ambassador by President Carter, who also named two others from the 200 to his original Cabinet: former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus Interior Secretary and Joseph Califano HEW Secretary, a job he was fired from on July 19. Nancy Teeters moved up from her post as an economist for the Federal Reserve to a place on its governing board, and Barbara Newell has been nominated to be Under Secretary of HEW. Last week Carter tapped former Mayor Moon Landrieu of New Orleans to be HUD Secretary and Mayor Neil Goldschmidt of Portland, Ore., to be Transportation Secretary...
...business leaders of 1974 have generally been successful. Raymond Hay switched from an executive vice presidency at Xerox to the presidency of LTV. Gerald Meyers rose from vice president to chairman and chief executive of American Motors. Economics Professor Marina Whitman will start next month as chief economist and vice president at General Motors. The biggest losers among the businessmen were Arthur Taylor, eased out of the presidency of CBS, and Richard Kattel, the boy wonder of Atlanta's go-go banking days, who resigned his chairmanship of Citizens and Southern National Bank. The Comptroller of the Currency...
...Martin Feldstein, 40, his colleagues predict, is some day bound to reach the pinnacle of their profession: chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, Feldstein is already perhaps the most influential young economist in the nation, the leader of a group of "new conservatives" who are arguing that the Government should meddle less in the economy. Feldstein heads the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, a private organization financed by grants from foundations and corporations, highly respected in the profession for its study of economic cycles. The cure for what...
...since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...