Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black businessman's primary obligation is to be successful, Dunbar S. McLaurin, black businessman and economist, told a Business School audience yesterday...
...major reason for the lack of acrimony was the presence on campus of William Gordon Bowen, 38, university provost and Princeton's No. 2 man since 1967. A nationally known economist with an excellent record as an academic administrator, Bowen was heartily recommended by student, faculty and staff search committees. Thus it was no surprise last week when the trustees agreed, and appointed him the 17th president in Princeton's history...
...went through Denison University on scholarship and was the first member of his family to graduate from college. He did his graduate work in economics at Princeton on scholarship, and in 1965, at 31, became the second-youngest full professor in the school's modern history. As an economist, he has specialized in studies of concrete, practical concerns; his best-known book is an analysis of the financial problems of the performing arts in the U.S. Youthful enough to pass for a junior instructor, Bowen, who is married and has a son, 13, and a daughter, 7, keeps...
...exploded into a vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader, who feels otherwise. In a report released last week, a group of his Raiders argued that the elephant not only dances with the chickens...
...Pabst Brewing Co. for the best essay on how the U.S. could achieve full employment after World War II (he recommended retraining defense workers and reducing taxes to stimulate the economy). The next year, 1945, he joined the business-supported Committee for Economic Development. Eventually he became its chief economist, and later a senior fellow at Washington's influential Brookings Institution, which is a sort of stud farm for top Government economic policymakers...