Word: mathes
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...Nation examines the new "McGovernomics"-the revised program announced by George McGovern-and appraises the plan's politics and its math. Medicine discusses the "unofficial abortion," a procedure being used increasingly to avoid the legal complexities of regular abortions...
SALLY PEIL, 22, Georgia, a senior math major at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Ga., first thought of running for delegate last February when a history professor suggested it to her and sev eral other students. "We thought heaven's sake, that can't be possible That's strictly for the old people was elected largely with student votes. She all but the swooned when she first entered the convention hall: "Everything was so high, so big. I was lost. There were people everywhere. It was so exciting. If you could breathe in the atmosphere...
Kenneth Elstein in outlook and experience is in many ways typical of the young McGovernites. A high school math teacher, Elstein began his political experiment last October when he read a short item in the New York Times describing a professor's effort to put together a McGovern slate. Elstein volunteered. Strictly obeying the new party guidelines, Elstein and the other McGovernites held open caucuses to decide their slate, which included Elstein and seven others...
Last week Wicker laid out some of the questionable points in the McGovern math, which he said had been "accepted far too uncritically, with the result that the McGovern income program was made, in this column, to seem more practical and carefully worked out than it is." By implication, he admitted that like any professional, he should have double-checked the figures with disinterested experts. Wicker continues to support McGovern's general ideas about sharing the wealth, but declined to take himself-or the candidate-off the hook. What matters, he said, "is that expert economic analysis so impugns...
...overriding question again is whether the nation can afford it. McGovern's answer is easy and superficially reassuring: yes. His $28 billion in tax reforms and $32 billion in defense savings (see following story) would cover the $55 billion of new social spending. Yet the math is tricky. Some Democratic economists calculate that his defense cutbacks would save $10 billion less than he thinks. His revenue proposals could raise less than he estimates because Congress tends to shave down proposals for tax increases. His social programs could easily be costlier than he calculates because Congress has a propensity...