Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There, oil companies bid for any available crude that is not already committed to customers under long-term contracts. Though the quoted long-term OPEC price currently stands at about $13 per bbl., spot-market oil last week was trading for as much as $17 per bbl. Warns Energy Economist John Lichtblau of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation: "The OPEC countries are free to adjust their prices if they want to, and they could well increase them so that not only will spot prices go up, but official prices as well, at least temporarily." It seems that the energy crisis...
Courtenay Slater, the Commerce Department's chief economist, said, however, that figures do not prove that there would be a recession. "I certainly would not leap to the conclusion they are forecasting an actual recession," he said...
...House spends the same amount of money for each student--about $1.00 per person per meal, on average. Each House has the same purchasing techniques in buying food, and all adhere to the standardized menu prepared by Rachel Raven, Food Services manager and the University dietician. Raven, a home economist who has been in the food business for 27 years, said the University recipe file was started some five years ago and there have been "few additions" to it in recent times...
...going to see a lot of very close votes and probably a lot of vetoes." So predicted a top economist for the Federal Government last week as Jimmy Carter put the finishing touches on the fiscal 1980 budget that he will submit to Congress on Jan. 22. Budget battles between the White House and Congress are an annual event, but this year the President, Democratic leaders and most Republicans are in rare general agreement. They know that there is a conservative tide running in the country and that federal spending must be checked. So what is the fight...
Only a handful of women economists occupy top spots in business, but even there conditions are improving. One of the best-known business specialists is Kathleen Cooper, 33, who is an economist for the Denver-based United Banks of Colorado, an 18-bank holding company. Says she: "More and more women are coming into the profession and doing well, but there aren't a whole lot at the top. I'm a rarity." Another rarity is Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president and treasurer of Townsend-Greenspan, economic consultants to many of the nation's largest corporations. She assumed...