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...recession. He has also advocated "a restrictive monetary policy that means, among other things, the discipline of high interest rates." Shortly before his inauguration last week, Ford endorsed a recent proposal by a number of commentators for an "economic summit" of leading economists, bankers, businessmen and labor officials to hash out some unified approach to the problem of inflation...
...DROPPED OUT of school suddenly, three weeks into the term because I couldn't manage and within two days, I was in San Francisco. The day before I left I went to University Health Services to hash it out with a psychiatrist. But I was slightly disappointed in the tiny man with a heavy German accent who sat me down and began to ignore me. He wrote notes continually during the session, using a thick, phallic Mont-Blanc pen that was twice the size of his hand. After I told him everything that was happening, he turned...
...rest of the meetings consisted of a re-hash of all the platitudes of the past delivered mainly by the same kind of people (in some instances the same individuals) who have made the Urban Design Conferences of the past such a failure and bore. The new title and graphics did not fool anyone. While the previous Conferences were free, now the Dean at the Graduate School of Design was charging $100 per person--the only thing that...
...seemed more certain two months ago than a continuing slide in interest rates. That conviction was nurtured by expectations of a slackening economy, the energy crisis, wilting loan demand and a less restrictive money policy by the Federal Reserve Board. To the astonishment of most experts, inflation has made hash of those predictions; both long-and short-term interest rates are scooting back up, some to record highs. Soaring loan costs are now hurting businessmen trying to finance expansion programs, municipalities seeking public improvements and millions of people wanting to buy homes...
Eliot House students just shook their heads in disbelief at brunch Sunday morning. No, this time it wasn't the corned beef hash, looking as worn out as the pocket of my ten-year-old baseball glove, that shocked everyone. Yale had beaten the hockey team. Yale, the school that had to be beaten to avenge the November football massacre. Yale, the team that had lost seven in a row. Impossible. It didn't happen to Cleary's invincible crusaders that had not lost since exams...