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Says MIT Professor of Economics Edwin Kuh, "When you have a reasonable theory and strong data it is practical to test hypotheses with time series analysis [the type of computer study Feldstein used], but in the case of the Feldstein controversy these conditions were...
Beyond the squabbles over the use and alleged misuse of data, there is one thing on which all economists agree: there is little in economics that cannot be viewed and used in a number of different ways. Says MIT's Edwin Kuh, "While the ostensible rules of the game are different, an economist is much like a lawyer filing a brief...
...pass messages to the brain, and the brain itself does not develop until then the cognitive structure needed to perceive pain or aggression or to perform "purposeful action." It is especially irresponsible for the narrator of the movie to assert that a 12-week fetus could experience pain. Dr. Edwin Myer, chairman of the department of pediatric neurology at the Medical Colege of Virginia, says "that the fetus feels pain is a totally ridiculous statement. Pain implies cognition. There is no brain to receive the information...
...recess, Democrats David Boren of Oklahoma and James Exon of Nebraska began a Senate filibuster aimed at forcing the Administration to make more loan money available to farmers who might otherwise go broke before they can get their spring planting done. The most important business delayed was confirmation of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which has already been on hold for a year. Robert Dole, the new Majority Leader, called the maneuver "blackmail" and testily declared, "If we start playing political games rather than responding to the real concerns of these issues, then we are finished." Shot back Democrat...
ACQUITTED. Edwin Moses, 29, Olympic gold medal hurdler; by a six-man, six- woman jury, of soliciting an act of prostitution; in Los Angeles. Undercover Officer Susan Gonzales testified that on Jan. 13 he offered her $100 for sex acts, but the jury apparently believed Moses' testimony that he pulled his car over on a Hollywood street only because he thought she recognized him, and that she suggested the sex acts, then asked how much money he had. Startled because she was dressed "normally," he told her $100. On the stand he said, "People come up to me every...