Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their old ally Johnson has been too timid in urging that the Fed spur the economy. Says Supply Sider John Albertine, vice chairman of Chicago- based Farley Industries: "The Fed has missed the boat. Real interest rates are still much too high." Agrees Paul Craig Roberts, a scholar at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The Reagan appointees are powerless in view of the Volcker aura...
...whether it is too soft on Reagan. Polls commissioned by the Los ! Angeles Times found that four out of five people think the press is fair to Reagan. As many believe the Government frequently manipulates the way journalists report the news. Says Media Specialist Michael J. Robinson of Georgetown University, adviser for the latest poll, "It was a surprise to us to find that the public is more likely to see the press as wimpish than imperial...
They were the Establishment personified: six men who went to the same East Coast schools, chatted at the same Georgetown dinner parties and cozily made American foreign policy for decades. Devoted to serving their country, pragmatists rather than ideologues, internationalists with an instinct for the center, they raised nonpartisanship in diplomacy to an art form. Their names: Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, George Kennan, Robert Lovett and John McCloy...
...Washington social scene last week was lacking in the austerity that the International Monetary Fund has usually demanded from its cash- strapped borrowers. Instead, on the occasion of the annual joint meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, there were scores of parties, ranging from elegant dinners in Georgetown town houses to lavish banquets in the National Gallery's East Building. Hundreds of guests arrived in long lines of limousines and munched golden raspberries from California, wild mushrooms from France, and smoked pheasant...
When doctors decided that Susan Garn Horne, 27, needed a new kidney, finding one proved no problem. "I am very happy and proud to be the donor," said Utah Senator Jake Garn, 53, her father. Last week, in six hours of surgery performed in adjacent operating rooms in Georgetown University Hospital, Garn's left kidney was transplanted to his daughter...