Word: economists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long ago when I was a student in England, I went to [Economist] Harold Laski for advice about my studies. He said, "Young woman, if you want to amount to something you had better start on your own life right now-if you tag along with your father you won't be able to do anything else." But there doesn't seem to be any choice, in the sense that I felt my father's loneliness so intensely, and I felt also that whatever I amounted to, or whatever satisfaction I got from my own work, would...
...after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman: "I look at the inflation numbers and I laugh because I see my own costs going bonkers...
...prices paid for average purchases by the average consumer. The trouble is that such people do not really exist. The C.P.I. assumes that shoppers spend 18.7% of their income on food, for example, without allowing for individual differences or special needs. Says Patrick Jackman, a Bureau of Labor Statistics economist: "The extent to which the C.P.I. accords with reality depends very much on one's spending patterns...
...come you're so upper class and we're so lower class, and you're our daughter?" a Government economist named Jacob Perlman once asked his sassy child Judith. Not an easy question for the future Miss Manners to answer. Perhaps some kind of metamorphosis began back when Perlman worked for the United Nations and moved his family to the Philippines. Recalls Judith Martin: "My father sat us down, my brother and me, and said, 'Children, we have to tell you something. We have reached the crucial point when the servants outnumber...
...section leader who asked not to be identified said Dunlop was chosen specifically because he is a labor economist and has been a labor arbitrator, giving him useful experience is settling difficult disputely...