Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANY MONTHS AFTER students asked the University to support consumer student boycotts of J.P. Stevens and Nestle Inc. products officially, the Faculty Council last week ruled that the University should in no case recognize a student boycott even if a majority voted for a boycott in a referendum. The Council...
If a majority of students show by direct boycott or ballot that they find use of a product morally repugnant, then a boycott should take place. By denying students this right, the University does worse than take a morally neutral position; it prevents students from acting on their moral beliefs...
The monetarists, those epigones of Milton Friedman who are among the only Americans with reason to rejoice over Volcker's moves, waffled. For the first time a financial official seemed to be taking their advice to heart; conservative monetarists have called for direct control of the money supply for years...
WHILE ACADEMIC ECONOMICS roils in disagreement, Volcker has set the terms for a larger national debate from now till the 1980 elections. No one doubts that inflation is the American public's white whale, the unknown menace the government must first locate and then destroy. But experts and laymen alike...
Instead of fooling with "monetary aggregates" and free-floating interest rates--which the public doesn't understand, and would probably fight if it did--the federal government could take steps to enforce gasoline conservation, either directly by legislated requirements for Detroit or indirectly by an exorbitant gas tax that would...