Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GORDON WEIL, 35, while not an economist (he holds a Ph.D. from Columbia in government), is the liaison between the candidate and his advisers. Some of the latter complain that Weil shielded McGovern too tightly from their thoughts-including their second ones on how much some programs might cost-with the result that the Senator has had to retreat from much of his original arithmetic. Weil admits that while drafting the widely criticized April summary of McGovern's economic positions, "I did not expect it to be subject to this kind of scrutiny." Nevertheless, he maintains that "we have...
...previous twelve months. Exports have begun to revive. Unemployment is still much too steep, but the rate dropped last month from 5.9% to 5.5%, the lowest in 20 months. The heartening decline was due partly to a large seasonal adjustment for the annual flood of June graduates. White House economists are not sure why relatively few of them are listed as unemployed this year. "They must be out working for McGovern," quipped a top Administration official. In a more serious vein, IBM Chief Economist David Grove, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists says: "The economy is improving...
...John Chancellor will serve as straight man for David Brinkley. Conservative William Buckley has switched both networks and adversaries. In 1968 he exchanged bitchy broadsides with Gore Vidal on ABC; this time he will have morning jousts with John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard's liberal economist, on NBC's Today show...
...microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian Economist Josué de Castro fumes at the very mention of birth control. "Genocide of the unborn!" he charges...
...Economist Barbara Ward on the trend of speeches: "Truth is moving to platitude with alarming speed...