Word: economists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left should win power in the French elections, predicted Economist Otto von Fieandt, "1978 will be the year of the free lunch." He might have added that it would be the costliest lunch in French history. Many analysts who have dissected the left's platform, or Common Program, believe that it will cause severe economic problems and gravely disrupt France's relations with the rest of Europe. Even some Socialist thinkers accept this analysis-if not publicly...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...
...treaties are torpedoed, says Panamanian Economist Guillermo Chapman, unemployment could reach 30% and "growth" could shrivel to minus 3% yearly. It is only fair to add that if the treaties are ratified and the economy fails to recover, the Panamanians will have no one to blame but themselves...
...land investor. He attended the best Jesuit schools, consistently topping his class. He went on to the University of Montreal law school, then spent two years studying politics and economics at Harvard and in Paris and London. He returned to Quebec in 1949 as a labor lawyer and economist. Trudeau flirted with socialism and became an outspoken civil libertarian, fighting against the autocratic and nationalist provincial government of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Early on, Trudeau accepted the idea of Quebec as a nation and a people, but never saw the necessity that it be a political state. As he later wrote...
...public debt and supervising the Treasury's major law enforcement arms, including the Secret Service. But he delegates wisely; he recruited Robert Carswell, 49, a Wall Street lawyer, as Deputy Secretary to handle the Treasury's 126,344-employee bureaucracy, and assigned Anthony Solomon, 58, an economist and State Department veteran, as Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, to run daily international operations. That leaves Blumenthal free to concentrate on the big-bang issues of inflation, taxes and the dollar-and have at least some chance to quit the office after the twelve-hour days that he considers...