Word: millers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeing slowdown instead of surge, Bill Miller declines to tighten money...
...Admitted a top policymaker: "We cannot go on expecting the wage and price guidelines to hold." Since President Carter has ruled out mandatory controls, the only other policy choice, in the view of White House advisers, is to raise interest rates. Leaks to the press and other pressures on Miller to tighten money became so obvious before the Open Market Committee meeting that Carter sent notes to Blumenthal and Schultze telling them to stop it. The President did not necessarily oppose the Fed's raising interest rates, but he did not want the voters to blame him for it. Said...
...Miller notes, consumer spending, the key propellant in the economic expansion, seems to be waning. Americans are up to their credit cards in debt, with installment and mortgage payments taking 23% of their disposable income, up a full three points since 1975. At the same time, soaring prices for food and energy are eating into paychecks and limiting consumer ability to repay loans and make other purchases...
...Dodson (Princeton) 70-71-141 2. Miller (Princeton) 72 73 145 3. Winslow (Columbia) 73 74 147 4. Loughran (Princeton) 77 73 150 5. Lystad (Yale) 75 75 150 6. Sherman (Dartmouth) 74 76 150 7. ALEXANDER (HARVARD) 76 75 151 8. Warner (Yale...
Harvard's Abby Meiselman and Leslie Miller, playing together for the first time, took the consolation route after an opening-round loss to the Princeton number two team. The Crimson team lost in the finals to the fourth-seeded Yale pair (who Roberts and Pierpont beat, 6-4, 7-5, in the first round), 6-0, 6-2. The Eli pair dominated net play and kept Harvard from ever getting into the match...