Word: economists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month for its $250 million purchase of Ozark Air, will soon be the sixth-place carrier (8.1%). Two weeks ago Delta Air Lines announced a bid to take over the fourth-place spot (11.9%) in the passenger race with an $860 million play for Western. Warns Lee Howard, an economist with the Washington consulting firm Airline Economics: "We see a tight oligopoly emerging in the airline industry, with perhaps a half-dozen major carriers controlling 90% of U.S. travel...
...have imposed as powerful an influence upon the nation as has any other private institution. Six Presidents, from John Adams to John F. Kennedy, came from Harvard, bringing with them some potent Cambridge-bred notions and cronies. Franklin D. Roosevelt had his New Deal, whose underlying Keynesianism, says Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, was imported from Cambridge. J.F.K. had his best and brightest, including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. Harvard's Henry Kissinger surely was the most powerful figure in the Nixon and Ford Administrations...
...course on American politics but does so as if addressing the House of Lords. At a table of 15, he gazes over the heads of students, indulging the musty convention of calling them by their last names only. Yet Wilson is considered sprightly compared with peers like Economist James Duesenberry, dubbed the "Human Quaalude" in the lively if erratic Confidential Guide issued by the campus newspaper, the Harvard Crimson...
...gathered group of two writers, an artist, an economist, a scientist and an historian praised Harvard for the flexibility of its graduate program at the symposium "Tradition and Innovation: The Realms of Scholarship...
...Economist Edward M. Bernstein '28 and science writer Roger B. Swain '71 also participated in the symposium...