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Other neoliberal proposals represent critical divergences from Democratic tradition. One, advocated by a group of economists including Lester Thurow proposes the revamping of anti-trust laws to remove bars on the expansion of successful American businesses, and to allow floundering ones, like the automobile industry, to pool information and share research and development costs. Not exactly trust busting but it will, they say, enhance American industry's ability to complete with Japan and Germany. Even more controversial is another Thurow suggestion, seconded by Felix Rohatyn, that the Federal government create a sort of central economic planning agency. This would allow...

Author: By Cecit D. Quillen, | Title: A New Breed | 2/19/1982 | See Source »

...Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy weights from academe and high finance--MIT economist Lester Thurow and New York investment banker Felix Rohatyn for example--are beginning to exert a strong influence on the thinking of the Democratic party...

Author: By Cecit D. Quillen, | Title: A New Breed | 2/19/1982 | See Source »

...naturally, there are al lot of pictures. On one wall the 1949 B.C. squad-first team form the East to win a national championship Nearby, Kelley and Teddy Kennedy '54 in front of the Waldorf Astoria in New York, where the senator presented the coach will the NHL's Lester Patrick Award, the most-coveted honor in the game...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: A Visit With Snooks | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Accomplishments like his 501 wins and the Lester Patrick Award are worth only passing reference in conversations: Kelley's joy are his former players, and particularly the slew of godchildren they've given him. He delights in the memory of having escorted one player's bride-to-be down the aisle when her father was unable to attend the wedding...

Author: By Gwen Knapp, | Title: A Visit With Snooks | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...greatest devastation occurred along Love Creek, near the town of Ben Lomond (pop. 2,793). Naomi Taylor says she heard a rumbling and looked outside. There, 20 ft. away, a 15-ft.-high tide of water and mud cascaded past, carrying her car with it. Her house was unscathed. Lester Grizzell, 54, slept through the mud slide. Says he: "It snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled from their home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rains Came, the Mud Flowed | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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