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...also had difficulty explaining why he agrees with suppy-side economist Milton Friedman--who says there is no correlates between interest rates and tans--and still believes that is "historical fact" that the deficit decreases by $20 billion for each percentage point drop in interest rates...
...Cortez family is taking part in one of the costliest and most studied corporate benefits to emerge in the past few years: child care. Says Dana Friedman, senior research fellow at the Work & Family Information Center: "Corporate-sponsored day care is this decade's hottest new employee perquisite." An estimated 1,000 companies now provide child-care assistance to parents, double the number of two years ago. The need springs from such major social changes as the increase in single parents and the continuing movement of women into the work force. In 1970, two-thirds of U.S. women with...
...their conflicts, economists still share a surprisingly large number of views. "Our disagreements have actually become much smaller,"says Friedman, the leader of the monetarist school. Virtually all economists espouse free trade, and most would analyze a wide range of policy prescriptions in similar ways...
...Yawk cab driver with both feet recklessly pressed on the accelerator pedal of life. East is East and South is South and never the twang shall meet, right? Not if you are familiar with Hollywood's perennial passion for cross-pollinating ethnic strains. Before you can say "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys," the country kitten has made a bet with her manager that in two weeks she can turn this city rat into a down-home singing star. Anyone who has trouble predicting the order and outcome of each succeeding scene in this amiable airhead of a movie...
...Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser's uncle, Allen Friedman, already has been convicted of receiving $165,000 in such payments. Another man, John Nardi Jr., has pleaded guilty to taking $109,000 in the same scheme...