Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Howell, chief economist of The First National Bank of Boston, shrugged off the newest revelations! "Who are we kidding here? Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson did everything in the book. They just never got caught...
...Nassau conference, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson declared: "The oil companies acting alone cannot be credible bargainers with OPEC." M.I.T. Economist Morris A. Adelman has gone even further, accusing the multinational oil firms of merely acting as tax-collection agents for the oil exporters. Both he and Jackson have suggested that the U.S. and other big oil consumers join together in a concerted diplomatic effort to break the OPEC cartel...
...thing that's terribly important is to have someone who is capable of getting a good grasp of a wide variety of fields," Bok said. "Henry has done research and taught on Western Europe, Russia, and the Far East. He's an historian as well as an economist, and has a grasp of several languages...
...chart this new direction. President Nixon has turned to a tweedy, pipe-smoking economist and military strategist, James R. Schlesinger, 44, who in February took over as director of the CIA. Aides quote Schlesinger as saying that "the entire intelligence community can produce a better product with a lower level of resources." In short, the nation's spy network should generate better intelligence for less money...
...meet the high cost of justice, the defense team has a salaried staff of 25, who raise funds, do legal research, plot courtroom strategy, type, prepare press releases and copy documents. "We open the office at 6 a.m.," says Head Fund Raiser Stanley Sheinbaum, an economist formerly of the Santa Barbara Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Actually, three persons have normally been working all night duplicating, collating, indexing and distributing copies of the previous day's trial transcript, exhibits and memos...