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...flaw in the rosy picture is that Americans for another year will have to live with levels of inflation and joblessness that they would have thought unbearable only a short time ago. Most of the economists think that price rises will equal or exceed this year's likely 3.4%. Eckstein predicts a 3.9% increase in the consumer price index-which is moderate compared to Europe's inflation, but excessive by past U.S. standards. Unemployment, the economists believe, will average around 5%, v. the 4% that is usually considered "full employment." The reason is by now familiar: super-rapid...
...role of the United States in every confrontation be particularly 'tough' or convincing." Although he correctly observes that Vietnamization "was adopted in response to the political threat which American war critics posed to the chances for compromise negotiation with the other side." Landau earlier states that "the most dangerous flaw in Kissinger's line of thinking is the belief that domestic opinion should pose no obstacles to the conduct of foreign policy...
...flaw is in no way as serious as claimed by most of the PR rowdies in their current symposium on "Art, Culture and Conservatism." For, if Modern Occasions sometimes carries a just bias against artistic pyrotechnics to a fault, any number of publications--with much larger circulations--are eager to accept Tom O'Horgan or even Richard Brautigan as serious innovators...
Kosters jokes that wage-price controls must be working, and working evenhanded, because "business is complaining that it cannot survive on recession profits and labor says it is being forced to swallow inflation-when the figures show that real wages and profits are both up." The major flaw is that food prices, which are largely uncontrolled, are rising rapidly, undermining consumer confidence in the whole program. Kosters still argues that food prices reflect not cost-push inflation but the pressure of demand upon a limited supply. He is beginning to wonder, however, whether controls may have to be extended...
...whole identity, to attribute to him any lie that sounded entertaining, and to rely on the assumption that Hughes was too old and too sick and too neurotic to defend himself, the whole tour de force seems less a caper than an assault. The even more basic flaw in Irving's portrait of himself as heroic caperer is his view that the gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest...