Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sears is back, his old benevolent self, campaigning for secretary of state against Democrat Michael Connolly, a six-year veteran of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
...worse, both of them might be right. There seems to be a good chance that voters on Tuesday will cast their ballots with whoever managed to sling the juiciest mud. Or, whoever has been the most successful at convincing people that his opponent is totally incompetent or dangerous. Rep. Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass.) admits that King has the "instincts of a soup-kitchen general for the Salvation Army," but on the other hand he thinks Massachusetts could use such a man to spur economic development in the northeast. Harrington's point is that King is a hustler...
Contended Stanford Economist Michael Boskin: "To deal with inflation, we must get Government spending under control. The longer we wait, the worse the biting of the bullet will be." University of Chicago Economist Walter Fackler insisted that neither voluntary nor mandatory restraints on wages and prices will work. "It's all just a silly game, a ritual we go through periodically. We will have inflation as long as the Federal Reserve continues to pump more money into the system." Yet the President could hardly present a plan for directing the Federal Reserve Board's policies since...
Some of Carter's economic aides served him about as well as Typhoid Mary in the kitchen. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal talked down the value of the dollar last year -a cheap dollar was supposed to stimulate exports. Carter might have foreseen that as the dollar fell, prices of imports would rise, lifting with them the prices of similar domestic products, from Wisconsin gorgonzola to Detroit subcompacts. Budget Chief James Mclntyre last January submitted a fiscal 1979 budget that projected a $61 billion deficit, even though the country was entering the fourth year of .economic recovery. Carter might have...
...employs two full-time hired hands, and during peak planting and harvest periods a dozen migrants from Texas or local high school students. The primary work force is the family: Sons Michael, 20, Blane, 18, Kurt, 13, and Daughters Stephanie, 19, and Lisa, 16. Even eleven-year-old David drives a tractor pulling a harvester that yanks three tons of sugar beets out of the ground every minute. All earn $3 an hour. During the wheat harvest each of them worked eight hours a day in staggered shifts so that some member of the family was in the fields...