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...They should stop giving us misleading figures," said Franco Modigliani, who won the Nobel in 1985 for his analysis of savings and financial markets. The government is on the whole no more inefficient than it was six years ago. These shotgun figures are just designed to mislead...
...worked initially in collaboration with 1985 economics prize-winner Franco Modigliani of the United States...
...visited Moscow in 1944, Stalin got very drunk and teased him by asking, "Are you going to arrest ((the French Communist leader Maurice)) Thorez?" Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans. Stalin signed a Franco-Soviet treaty during De Gaulle's visit, but he didn't attach much importance to it. "When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts." At that time the Communist Party in France was large and powerful enough to have real political influence. It also...
...grandmothers in sneakers, stocky shopkeepers and children in starched frocks join hands. A brass band brays for a slow-motion minuet. Toes out! Toes in! Deliberately, then merrily, 500 people count steps. The sardanas are courtly affairs, far removed from the stomping passion of Spanish flamenco. Under the Franco dictatorship, the dances were banned as subversive evidence of Catalan nationalism. But now, on Sunday afternoons, they are as ubiquitous as barbershop quartets at Iowa county fairs. "They're a sign of our identity," says Joan Anglada, a furniture salesman, pausing for breath...
...Dykstra, Philadelphia .405 Alomar, San Diego .357 Dawson, Chicago .346 Sabo, Cincinnati .346 Home Runs HR Dawson, Chicago 13 Bonilla, Pittsburgh 11 HJohnson, New York 8 Mitchell, San Francisco 8 MaWilliams, San Francisco 8 Wallach, Montreal 8 Saves Saves Burke, Montreal 10 McDowell, Philadelphia 10 DaSmith, Houston 8 Franco, New York 8 MiWilliams, Chicago 8 Myers, Cincinnati...