Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncle was chief of the Chilean navy in the 1950s). Merino's passions include philately and anti-Marxism. His violent opposition to the left is sometimes expressed with a certain wit. Says he: "To call Karl Marx a philosopher is to overvalue him. He tried to be an economist...
...consensus was that inflation would continue at about 5%-a previously painful rate described by Washington Economist Robert Nathan as something that "I'm afraid we are going to say 'Let's learn to live with.' " In effect, the economists agree that many U.S. decision makers have inflated the size of the price increases they consider tolerable...
...task for the Faculty this year is to make budget decisions at the margin," he said. Rosovsky, an economist by training, said he thought the Faculty had done little thinking about the interdependent aspects of the University budget...
...extraordinarily confessional press conference at Moscow's Journalists' Club. Looking remarkably fit despite 15 months of pretrail detention and interrogation, the leonine-headed dissident recited a prepared statement in a monotone while smoking Bulgarian cigarettes and sipping Caucasian mineral water. Along with his convicted codefendant, Economist Viktor Krasin, Yakir repeated the recantations that had earned them both relatively mild sentences (three years in prison and three years of exile) at their trial on charges of subversion (TIME, Sept...
...Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin went on trial in Moscow last week charged with subversion. No foreign observers were allowed in the courtroom. Tass reported that both men had freely confessed-in a manner that sounded reminiscent of Stalin's farcical purge trials of the '30s -to various acts against the state. In what seemed an attempt by the authorities to discredit Solzhenitsyn, their testimony supposedly described him as a sympathetic reader of a banned underground newspaper...