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...mother-son group seemed kind of quirky and fun," says Claflin Marshall. Summerland, which is 500 pages and drew mixed reviews from the group, is one of about 30 books they have read. The boys' tastes are, well, pure boy: heavy on science fiction and fantasy (think Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth and Patricia C. Wrede's Dealing with Dragons). The moms' picks have included Laurie Halse Anderson's historical fiction Fever 1793, the story of a young girl during the yellow-fever epidemic in post-Revolutionary Philadelphia, and excerpts from Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation...
That disturbs the experts who rely so heavily on Government data. Says Thomas Juster, an economics professor at the University of Michigan: "This kind of activity doesn't involve a major cost. It's a small-potatoes operation in terms of what the Federal Government does. But it also doesn't have any political attraction to the general public." Complains Henry Kaufman, the famed financial forecaster and former chief economist of Salomon Brothers: "The Government has not given a high enough priority to improving the quality of compiling economic data. We really do not cherish people...
...than save for tomorrow. Next came the inflation of the 1970s, which pushed prices up 87% in one decade. Consumers became accustomed to buying in a hurry because prices were always rising. Even as inflation has cooled off in the 1980s, the manic shopping reflex continues, notes F. Thomas Juster, an expert on savings behavior at the University of Michigan...
...everyone agrees. Says Thomas Juster, program director of the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center: "The observable tendency is for cutbacks across the whole spectrum of expenditure...
...million dead, at least for people--if there are any--personally untouched by the war. But however appalling they found the prospect of indefinite misrule by the United States and its Vietnamese collaborators, it seems unlikely that the Vietnamese consciously chose a fifteen-year struggle for a juster society with full knowledge that their tremulous victory would be realized in an Indochina unrecognizable and half-destroyed. Though the Vietnamese might like to let a hundred flowers bloom we have defoliated the forests; and it is difficult to build anything with mutilated hands...