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Budget Director David A. Stockman appointed Ginsburg to his new position at DeMuth's recommendation, OMB spokesman Edwin L. Dale Jr. said earlier this week. Ginsburg and DeMuth have had a long association as classmates at the University of Chicago and colleagues on the Harvard Faculty Project on Regulation, which DeMuth directed...
Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who has been leading the fight against Edwin Meese's nomination as Attorney General, relishes his role as captain of the Senate ethics squad. So more than a few eyebrows were raised when it was learned that the millionaire parking-lot magnate had received a $250,000 finder's fee for merely making two telephone calls last June to help arrange the $30 million sale of Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel. "It's legal and ethical," Metzenbaum said. But the resulting publicity apparently reminded him of a maxim he has often preached...
...need ARMS as a hedge against interest-rate surges like the one in 1981-82, when many lenders were caught with fixed-rate loans that paid them as little as 41/2%. At the same time, the thrifts were forced to pay 10% or more in interest to depositors. Says Edwin Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board: "Lenders must tie the fluctuating cost of money to lending to rates, or there will likely be no lenders left to make loans...
...Japan or slow down Japanese imports, Tokyo's trade surplus still grows. Said American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett last week: "The negotiations are encouraging, but I've learned to be cautious when expecting progress from the Japanese." -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...also brushed with fantasy, whimsy and quite real magic. One day before Cajun-raised Governor Edwin Edwards opened the exposition by intoning "Laissez les bans temps rouler! Let the good times roll!" the grounds had been a construction site. But somehow overnight the fair was mostly ready to go. By the end of the first week, the last two pavilions were finally finished dressing. And everything painted, powdered and primped looked alluring, if slightly deshabille...