Word: meltzer
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News Editor: Jonathan M. Moses '88 Night Editors: David J. Barron '89 Julie L. Belcove '89 Shari Rudavsky '89 Jessica A. Dorman '88 Emily M. Bernstein '90 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Joseph C. Tedeschi '90 Copy Editor: Wendy R. Meltzer...
...appointments of Edley, who worked for the Carter Administration, and Assistant Professor Daniel J. Meltzer now await routine approval from the Corporation's Joint Committee on Appointments...
...much the dollar's fall will do for U.S. trade remains to be seen. Lester Thurow, a professor of economics at M.I.T., cautions that the weakened currency is no panacea. Says he: "The dollar is nowhere near a low enough level to solve the trade-deficit problem." Allan Meltzer, a professor of political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University, is more sanguine. He comments, "I have no problem believing that the export surge is coming." Not surprisingly, neither Meltzer nor anyone else is willing to predict the precise timetable for a turnaround in the balance of trade...
While most economists agree that the deficit is a threat, there is no consensus on how to slash it. Many, including conservatives like Feldstein as well as liberals like Alice Rivlin of the Brookings Institution, believe that tax increases are unavoidable. Others, like Allan Meltzer of Carnegie-Mellon University and David Meiselman of Virginia Polytechnic, think that the emphasis should be on reductions in spending. In the NABE survey, economists were almost evenly split on the issue: 42% said that the deficit should be pared solely through spending cuts, while 41% supported some form of tax increase or reform...
...Meltzer hopes the novelty of the alcohol-free malts will also bolster the image Ruggles has tried to create with its "English-style" pizza...