Word: interesting
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...read with interest your fine article on the Nobel Prizes for 1979. However, I was disappointed by one serious omission. Nowhere in your article did you mention the institutions that encouraged the research, or the granting agencies that provided the necessary financial support for the awardees. Purdue University has been my home for more than 32 years and has provided an ideal environment for the research that my students and I have carried out. Financial support for various aspects of my research has been provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Army Research Office...
...Soaring interest buoys the buck but starts a slide in housing
When he boldly 'tackled the twin problems of runaway inflation at home and a hemorrhaging dollar abroad by tightening credit and raising interest rates a month ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was almost universally hailed. The road down from 13% inflation would be long and difficult, but it was also imperative; and Volcker's policy was acclaimed as necessary. Now the costs of the descent are beginning to become evident...
...Friday morning, July 10, 1953, a "HENRY ALFRED KISSINGER"--as the FBI recorded his name in its memo, identifying him simply as a "teacher at Harvard University"--called the FBI, reported he had information of interest to the bureau and asked that an agent call him back. That afternoon an "SAC"--the FBI code word for Special Agent in Charge--interviewed Kissinger, who explained that he directed the International Seminar, which included persons from foreign countries who "are highly placed economically and politically in their own nation." He added that through these people he hoped "to place American policy...
...connected organizers. Among its 100 sponsors are Barry Commoner, Studs Terkel, the best-selling writer. Richard Barnet, author of Global Reach and a founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftwing think tank, Steel Workers insurgent Ed Sadlowski and the heads of the Gray Panthers, the National Public Interest Research Group, the Black Economic Research Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The party also has sponsors with channels to potential financial supporters. The include David Hunter, executive director of the Stern Fund, Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones, Archibald Gillies, former director of the John Hay Whitney...