Word: economists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mead Over, economist on population, health and nutrition at the World Bank, said that unless further preventive measures are taken, the disease could devastate the Third World...
Then, with the civil rights leadership contending with an increasingly antagonistic Reagan administration, it looked as if inroads cut in the late 1970s by Hoover Institute economist Thomas Sowell would allow other conservative Black voices to be heard. In the years following Sowell's first publications, comrades emerged: Walter E. Williams, a George Mason University economist, Robert L. Woodson, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and most visible of all, Kennedy School Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury...
...Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded to know why anyone even bothered to - grow them. Says a Chinese economist: "In his policy of glasnost and political restructuring, Gorbachev has posed a challenge to the Chinese. Our reforms began at the grass roots. In the Soviet Union, change is coming down from...
...week, nearly two out of three (64%) say a major economic downturn is very or somewhat likely in the next twelve months. "Since about 19% of total retail sales occur during November and December, the plunge could not have come at a more inopportune time," says Robert Chandross, chief economist of Lloyds Bank in Manhattan...
...those payments went to farmers with annual sales of $100,000 or more. Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, a Republican presidential contender, proposes to wean farmers from income subsidies over five years, thus producing a $5 billion savings the first year and $75 billion in total. Agrees Harvard Economist Robert Reich: "The benefit of such aid is not as great as the social costs in failing...