Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, will abate a tiny bit from the 5.8% expected for this year to 5.7%, and hold there until the end of 1977. This is dramatically better than past doubledigit levels. But Board Member Robert Nathan, who manages his own consulting firm in Washington, feels that the inflation figures have benefited disproportionately from "windfalls" of relatively steady prices of food and fuel...
...still unclear, and perhaps undecided. The President-elect said last week at a news conference that "my own preference is to concentrate on job opportunities"−meaning he would put more emphasis on Government spending for job-creating programs, less on a tax cut. On the Board of Economists, Nathan favors that approach as a method not only to put people to work but to begin tackling some of the nation's unmet social needs−for example, mass transit and aid to education. Other Democrats on the board doubt that new spending programs beyond $5 billion...
What caused the spending shortfall is still largely a mystery. Nathan 'theorizes that Ford Administration bureaucrats responded altogether too strongly to White House pressure to hold down the budget. Okun believes that departments and agencies estimated their spending at the highest levels foreseeable−which in fact were not met−to avoid any chance of having to apologize to the boss for overrunning their targets. There were also some mechanical delays in handing out federal contracts. For a while, some economists believed that the money not spent in 1976 would flow out in 1977, lessening the need...
Several of the authors are stars in their own right. Robert Coles, Kenneth Lynn, Roger Rosenblatt and Nathan Glazer have at one time or another written enlightening pieces on their subject matter in this issue: work, American literature, television and ethnicity. But perhaps these writers' familiarity with their topics led to the chief drawback in this issue of Dadalus. No one seems to have expended much energy or given any new thought to his or her topic...
When Derek Bok finally agreed to appear before Meet the Press last Sunday, it marked only the second time Bok had spoken directly to a national audience in his five years in his current position. Other university presidents, including former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, have often found themselves leading public discussions on a variety of educational issues. "Derek would be perfectly content if he could get his job done at Harvard and never have his name in the paper," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and Bok's closest aide, said last spring...