Word: guess
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...worry about the ensuing bulge in the budget deficits. At one meeting, Simon remarked: "If I were a money manager, I'd be scared as hell." Ford asked: "Are you recommending against a tax cut?" Simon paused, then reluctantly said: "Mr. President, given the state of the economy, I guess we need a tax cut." (Late last week, while echoing support for the Ford program, Simon said that the prospective deficits for the next two years "horrify...
...great this "ripple effect" might be is anybody's guess; sluggish demand will certainly restrain some price increases. But some of the guesses are frightening. Senator Stevenson figures that the energy program could eventually raise living costs for the average family by $1,000 a year, or four times the $250 in direct fuel increases that the Administration estimates. A. Gary Shilling, chief economist at the Wall Street firm of White, Weld, fears that price increases forced by energy costs could total not $30 billion but $60 billion. That may be overblown, but if the increases go as high...
...guess a socialist in American must feel a lot like Spina did in the book: at one point, while an entire Italian town is rallying in support of Mussolini's attack on Africa, Spina paints on walls slogans like "Long Live the African People," "Down With Imperialism," and "Long Live the International." Silone makes clear that the townspeople wanted to murder the person who wrote those blasphemous things. America in 1975 is not yet fascist Italy, but Nick understood what it was like to uphold human decency while everyone else seemed to worship power, money and terror...
...think I've been fairly exposed to various types of life," she says, explaining why she hasn't had much trouble adjusting to Harvard. "I guess my parents wanted me to have any experience that would be educational, and they felt travel would be an educational experience...
Paris Vu Par. I can't imagine anyone going to see this, given the timing (it's Sunday night at Harvard-Epworth), but I guess there are some people who aren't in the bunker this week. Like If I Had A Million and that recent film on the Munich Olympics, this is a conglomerate movie, with different directors each interpreting the same subject--here, Paris. The directors are mostly New Wave in this case: Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, others, and--though the information I have here doesn't say so--I could have sworn that Louis...