Word: georgetown
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...done by Manuel Johnson, an Assistant Treasury Secretary. Two other outspoken advocates of the supply-side view are Alan Reynolds, an economic consultant with Polyconomics in Morristown, N.J., and Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Treasury Secretary in the Reagan Administration who is now a professor at Georgetown University. Supply-siders contend that the main factor propping up interest rates is the Federal Reserve's tight money policy. They argue that it was the Reserve Board that caused the recession and that if the 'Fed would loosen up, interest rates would come down and growth would stay strong...
...return to Harvard in September should be a welcome relief after Washington's grueling pace. Feldstein usually gets up at 6:15 and drives his 1976 Volvo from the family's rented town house in Georgetown to his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He is rarely on the cocktail-party circuit. Says his wife Kathleen: "We only go to places where we can really talk to people...
Feldstein prefers to work late at the office or in his book-lined study at home. Sometimes he can be seen at 2 a.m. walking the family dog, a beagle named Daniel Webster, through the streets of Georgetown. To friends he can appear onedimensional. Says one: "His interests run to economics, economics and economics." His one hobby is photography. Among his prized possessions are videotapes of an eight-week round-the-world trip the family made in 1982. Recalls his wife: "It practically killed us to lug that equipment to the Great Wall of China, but we got some terrific...
...Georgetown 23-3 the lossended a 10 game winning streak including a record nine straight conference games St. John's which has won four straight is 16-8 overall and 7-6 in the league...
...Georgetown which trailed by as many as 22 in the first half cut the deficit to 72-69 on Horace Broadnax's short jumper off an offensive rebound with 48 seconds remaining...