Word: economists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...birds regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there is a thermal inversion in which a whole lot of people die, the government will be blamed and there could be a violent response...
...were given a straightforward appraisal of the problems of the Soviet economy that could have come from an American economist. Western observers often tell stories of bizarre inefficiencies, like the setting of the price of children's clothing so low that taxi drivers buy it to clean their windshields. But this story came from a high party official...
...posing an economic threat in the U.S. The cost of caring for victims of the disease, many of whom are denied health insurance, is already estimated to exceed a billion dollars a year. By 1991 AIDS medical bills could total as much as $14 billion annually, according to Health Economist Anne Scitovsky of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Research Foundation, "and that does not begin to address the loss in productivity from the death of people in the prime of life...
...controversy when he used the terms bloated and corpocracy to describe the U.S. business hierarchy. Darman's epithets rebutted executives who blamed federal tax and budget policies for problems with U.S. competitiveness. Both Darman and other officials, however, acknowledge that Big Business is changing its ways. Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, acclaims the present restructuring efforts of corporate America as "amazing...
Such trade restrictions have had a large cumulative impact. Michael Aho, a senior economist at Manhattan's Council on Foreign Relations, estimates that in 1981 approximately 25% of all U.S. imports were subject to some form of government limitation. Now the total is 40% and, observes Aho, the "tendency is definitely for more." On the other hand, Claude Barfield, coordinator of trade policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, lauds the Administration for its continuing antiprotectionist restraint in the face of pressure to enact much more sweeping measures. The latest White House trade initiative, he points...