Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alexandre Lanfalussy, economic adviser for the Bank for International Settlements, sounded only a slightly more optimistic note. "There is a growing awareness that inflation is unacceptable," and that a wide range of policies is needed to deal with it, Lanfalussy said. "The main problem will be a political one: Is there a sufficient social consensus in our democratic society to carry out these policies without major political upheaval...
...basketball rescued him from a career of crime as a tough kid in Doylestown, Pa. At 69, tennis is his game. Since 1965, when he suffered a coronary infarction, he has credited sports with saving his life. By Michener standards, this calls for a nearly 500-page thank-you note...
...paid many of her bills with his bishop's discretionary funds. As she was dying, she told him she had taken 55 sleeping pills. He rushed her to her own nearby apartment, called a doctor, who could not save her, and removed the part of her suicide note addressed to himself, later giving it to his third wife. This read in part: "(a) I am unlovable and (b) you are unloving... Maren...
...ward-heeling school, a big bluff, outgoing operator who belonged to every fraternal organization from the Elks to the Eagles, knew every local Democratic chieftain from his native New York to California, and could win a new ally or stroke an old one with a warm note signed "Jim" in his trademark Irish green ink. He left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary by 1928, when he managed F.D.R.'s successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...that are not in sight, if it is to recoup the L-1011's huge development costs. Says Haack carefully: "I don't classify myself as being exuberant, but I'm beginning to get cautiously optimistic." On the confidence scale, this is surely a new note at Lockheed...