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...puffs through eight to ten pipeloads of tobacco a day and worries about it. He asks for two olives in his martini. Swimming is his favorite sport, early morning the best time of his day, and a Sunday-afternoon round of golf is his special weekly fix...
...sets everywhere, James Brown or Elvis billowing from the kitchen radio, and a clock on the wall that appears to be five hours slow. "We like to think of it as being seven hours fast," says Tomita, long resigned to the incongruity of being an electronics master who cannot fix a clock...
Smith's system was designed to enthrone not the businessman but the consumer. Far from admiring merchants, he looked upon them as a greedy lot who were forever trying to bypass the market by conspiring to fix prices and hold down wages. But he thought, somewhat naively, that such monopolistic schemes could prosper only with the active aid of government?which, in his day, they often got. So he advocated complete laissez-faire. Government, he said, should stop trying to regulate trade, cease all intervention in the market and let free competition work its wonders...
...given such cacophonous names as "stagflation," "slumpflation," "infession" and "inflump." Breaking that inflation-recession cycle is rapidly becoming the major problem, not only of capitalism, but of democracy. Inflationary recession is more likely than anything else to make voters turn to an authoritarian fascist or socialist system that would fix price, production and employment levels by fiat, and permit no argument...
...FINANCIAL FIX. For almost a month, city and state officials and a handful of private citizens chosen by Governor Hugh Carey had wrestled with New York's deepening financial dilemma (TIME, June 16). The city's profligate borrowing had wiped out the national market for its securities: no more notes could be issued until the city started putting its finances in order. That meant the kind of retrenchment that Mayor Abe Beame and other city Democrats find painful to contemplate. For a while, they and the Republicans controlling the state senate could not seem to face...