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Radical economists are rare in the Harvard Economics Department, and, with the noted exception of Marglin, only mainstream economics occupies a permanent place on the top floor of Littauer Marglin's own appointment was in many ways, a fluke Wild speculation has accompanied the story of his tenure. "I have been accused or admired, depending on your point of view, of having been a closet radical all those years, and just waiting until I got tenure to show my true colors." Marglin says. "I wish I could claim such foresight, but the reality is more prosaic...
...mountain-rimmed missile testing grounds. Columbia then made a wide right turn, aligned itself with one of the desert runways and plunged downward at breathtaking speed, dropping at an angle seven times steeper than that of a commercial jet. At 4,000 ft., its fall was accelerated by a fluke wind that caused the speed brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma took over the stick. Columbia came in so "high and hot"-pilot's lingo for fast and steep-that Fullerton released the main landing gears...
Three indexes of producer (wholesale) prices-for finished goods, partly processed materials and raw commodities-really did fall in February, the first time that all went down simultaneously since February 1975. Moreover, the slowdown has been going on long enough that it cannot be dismissed as a fluke. The Producer Price Index for finished goods, those ready to be stocked on store shelves, has been declining fairly steadily and significantly since January...
...Christian Democrats' secretary-general, Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The attack was the third or fourth attempt on his life, he isn't exactly sure about the total. "I don't know why I'm alive at this moment," he says, smiling. "It is a little fluke...
...this election year, the governor is determined to prove that his 1978 success was no fluke, and that his conservative policies accurately represent the desires of "common people...