Word: economists
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...food and hunger expert Lester R. Brown says, "The issue is no longer whether food represents power, but how that power will be used." Butz is admittedly a politician as well as an agricultural economist. He would use the power of food more aggressively to restrain the Soviet Union and increase American influence in ravaged areas...
Part of the answer undoubtedly is that the public, in the words of Economist Otto Eckstein, is still "shell-shocked" by the severity of the recession that ended last spring. People seem to recognize, accurately, that years will be required to repair the damage to the jolted economy. In addition, the consciences of people who are working have been assuaged by the knowledge that...
...backgrounds, achievements and views of these women are amply detailed. Scores of others might be added to the list?distinguished lawyers, economists, business executives, actresses, writers. For example, Economist Alice Rivlin, chief of the new Congressional Budget Office, has taken on the tough job of analyzing for Senators and Congressmen just how their legislation will probably affect national spending, budget deficits, prices and employment. Sarah Caldwell, the formidable director of the Opera Company of Boston, week after next will become the first woman to conduct at the New York Metropolitan Opera (TIME, Nov. 10). Journalist Charlotte Curtis wields powerful political...
...than that by year's end. That would contrast with a 7.6% increase in retail prices in the twelve months ended last October and a horrifying 11% in 1974. On this one point, however, there are some serious disagreements in the predictions. Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president and economist of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, sees the end-of-1976 inflation rate at a low 5%; Robert Nathan, head of his own consulting firm, forecasts a startlingly high...
Seven months after early signs of recovery from recession became visible in the U.S., they are appearing in Europe, too. They are confined to a few key indicators (auto sales, appliance and consumer buying) and are most evident in two key countries: West Germany and France. Nonetheless, says Italian Economist Luigi Spaventa, voicing a general European view, "I expect we've hit bottom. Now it depends on how long we keep crawling along down there...