Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abol Hassan Banisadr, 47, is Iran's new acting Foreign Minister and Finance Minister. His quiet manner, spectacles and Charlie Chaplin mustache belie a deep-rooted fierce economic radicalism. An economist who studied at the Sorbonne, Banisadr says Iranian foreign policy has "a single objective: freedom from economic, cultural and political dependence on the West." He adds: "There are two things you can do-fight or rot. I prefer to fight...
Without any question, however, in the '30s at Cambridge, homosexuality and leftish opinions tended to go together. For instance, many of the Apostles, an elitist society at one time dominated by [Economist John Maynard] Keynes, and closely associated with his college, King's, notoriously combined culture, Communism and the love that nowadays all too readily dares to speak its name. Also in residence at King's, and also decisively homosexual, was the famous but, as I think, much overrated novelist E.M. Forster, who provided putative traitors with a serviceable formula for justifying their treachery by insisting that...
Harvard College Economist...
...each appearance and raising some $3 million for local Republican candidates. In recent months he has spent several hours a week being briefed intensively on both foreign and domestic issues by Martin Anderson, a former White House adviser in the Nixon Administration and an economist. Meanwhile, Reagan's campaign staff has built the biggest coast-to-coast organization of any G.O.P. candidate...
...House, and the Senate is debating a bill passed by its Finance Committee that would levy "only" $138 billion in new taxes. Administration lobbyists are now trying to increase the bite on energy companies to $242 billion. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office, headed by Democratic Economist Alice Rivhn, concluded that such action would enrich the Treasury but result in less oil for the country. The study showed that domestic oil production in 1990 under the tough House tax would be 7.1 million bbl. per day, while it would be 7.6 million with the lighter Senate bill...