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...doesn't seem to matter that economists across the political spectrum agree that drastic steps to reduce the deficit will, ultimately, weaken the economy. Liberal economists say that spending cuts and increased taxes in the present state of the economy would only exacerbate recessionary tendencies. Robert Eisner, president-elect of the American Economic Association, says that budget cutting would be a "mindless throwback to the economics of Herbert Hoover...
...number" coming out of MIT at the age 27,the noted Black conservative was courted byseveral schools before he accepted an assistantprofessorship at Northwestern University'seconomics department, said Robert Eisner, chairmanof the department at the time...
...Northwestern and Michigan, Loury's views inarticles and private conversations were "fairlyliberal," said his former colleagues. "I did notrecall him as having particularly conservativeideas that have made him attractive to the ReaganAdministration," Eisner said...
...occur to me that he was opposed to[affirmative action policies] then," Eisner said.In a May interview, Dubois Professor of Historyand Afro-American Studies Nathan I. Huggins notedthat only recently has Loury charted such aconservative course...
Before the Diller-Eisner team left, it had already moved Paramount neck- and-neck with Warner for Hollywood's No. 1 studio slot with such hits as Flashdance, An Officer and a Gentleman and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In Diller's final year, Paramount's profits hit what was then an all-time peak of $109 million on revenues of $986.6 million. The duo left behind one monster hit, Beverly Hills Cop, which subsequently brought in $235 million. But the Paramount stable also included such nags as King David ($5.1 million) and Explorers ($9.9 million). Paramount's market share...