Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Odd Couple. Even more galling to many Democrats are the stories that Carter has decided to reappoint Burns Federal Reserve chairman when his second four-year term expires in January. Press Secretary Jody Powell says that his boss has not even begun to consider the succession at the Federal Reserve. But liberals, who want one of their own at the nation's central bank, are unconvinced...
Just how close are Burns and Carter? Liberals fear that they might be turning into the political Odd Couple of all time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and, though theoretically removed from politics when he was named Federal Reserve chairman in 1970, a close confidant of Gerald Ford's. During the campaign, Candidate Carter rapped Burns' Federal Reserve for its conservative monetary policies. He also made much of a proposal to make the term...
...father of three, Beckerman is indulgent toward youthful ecofreaks. "Poor old radical youth; it's hard not to sympathize with them," he sighs. But "pollution hysteria" generated by such studies as The Limits to Growth, he adds sternly, is another example of the odd doom consciousness that has persisted in industrial countries since Thomas Malthus, an early 19th century English clergyman who warned that population would soon outstrip available food supplies. Beckerman does admit to a certain pessimism about the next ten years. He fears unnecessarily slow growth, and blames politicians who deal with inflation by strangling economic expansion...
Reggie Jackson is in a bad slump and will only bat against right-handed pitchers who pitch with a mitten on their throwing arm, according to soon-to-be-vacationing Billy Martin. Furthermore, Martin said that southpaw starter Ken Holtzman will pitch only on the Jewish holidays of odd years, which is also apparently the only time Craig Nettles (.197) plans on getting a base...
These switches produced some odd shifts in the board's usual conservative-liberal arguments. Grinning broadly, Alan Greenspan, a Manhattan business consultant who was President Ford's staunchly conservative chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, pronounced himself "probably the happiest of all the board members" with Carter's economic policies; no one disagreed. On the other hand, Democrats Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota and Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution, who usually back each other up, fell into some good-natured jousting over the wisdom of Carter's dropping the tax rebate. After...