Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the zeal of the sinner reformed, Charles Jackson Grayson Jr. goes around the country preaching that inflation cannot be defeated by price controls. Sad experience has taught the professor: he was Richard Nixon's price commissioner during the cold, post-freeze days of controls from 1971 through early 1973. Now this much-lettered man (Pennsylvania M.B.A., Harvard D.B.A., ex-FBI agent, ex-S.M.U. business school dean) is trying to sharpen what he considers America's most forceful anti-inflation weapon: productivity...
Grayson disputes the conventional wisdom that productivity has been hurt by social change. The surge of women, nonwhites and the young into the job market has not had much impact, in his view. C. Jackson Grayson Jr. "I've heard all the rhetoric about we-don't-want-to-work-hard-any-more, and I don't believe it. The work ethic has not been lost. What has happened is that autocratic, bureaucratic organizations in business and public service have suppressed the desires and ability of the individual to feel that he or she is contributing. People...
...victory kept the Bosox 21/2 games behind the storming Yankees, with 12 games remaining. The Bronx Bombers got back-to-back home runs from Lou Piniella and Reggie Jackson and a key eighth-inning infield single from Mickey Rivers to put the Brewers out to pasture, seven games out of first...
With Willie Randolph at first, Hobson fielded a Thurman Munson sizzler and misfired the ball into centerfield in his haste to turn the double play. Remy then let a Reggie Jackson dribbler squirt through his legs, and the aggressive-running Bombers had tallied twice to close the gap to 6-3. But Jackson was cut down trying to stretch the Remy error into a double, and reliever Bob Stanley fanned Chris Chambliss to quash the rebellion...
MARRIED. Kate Jackson, 28, almond-eyed beauty of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Andrew Stevens, 23, budding star of the miniseries The Bastard and son of Actress Stella Stevens; both for the first time; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass...