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...Headroom: 20 minutes into the future...
...woman, whose ad boasted of a "superb chassis" and "excellent headroom," says that she felt the "circumscribed pool of Harvard Magazine would have people of the income, education and culture I was looking for. My husband was a Harvard man; I knew it was a good medium...
Liberal economists argue that fears of a too rapid recovery are overblown. Says Heller: "We have lots of headroom for expansion and no prospect of revived inflation for quite a long stretch ahead." Heller points out that wage costs, a central element of inflation, are still declining. Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein challenges the common assumption that the money supply is expanding too fast. He notes that M2 and M3, two broader measures of money that include various types of savings accounts, are growing within their target ranges. The narrower M1 figures, he adds, may have been distorted by the swift...
There isn't much headroom for evolution. In an explanation that, ironically could be viewed as Marxist. Goldman contends that the authoritarian nature of the economic system dictates the political system's constraints. Even Soviet leaders are provided little space in which to maneuver or more accurately incentive to effect change. The "classless society" makes a clearcut distinction between the masses and the elite granting the latter inumerable privileges. As Goldman writes, "For those who do realize the true state of life, the temptation to protest is generally tempered by the realization that muckraking may lead to the withdrawal...
...daughter Ada (Lindsay Crouse) conjures up the ghost of her father to justify his life. The poet (William Hurt) discourses on incest with his half sister, bisexual promiscuity and sodomy, all with disconcerting jollity. Justly praised for his film work in Altered States and Eyewitness, Hurt has scant headroom in this bombette of a play to do more than parade his grand good looks. Crouse fetchingly adorns the evening with passion and perspicuity...