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Word: oswald (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inflation, is a siren that has attracted supporters on both the political right and left. Milton Friedman, a sometime adviser to Ronald Reagan, has advocated COLAs as a stopgap to mitigate the social disruptions caused by soaring prices while action is taken to bring inflation under control. And Rudy Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, says, "Indexation allows workers to make up for some of the inflation that has taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inflation's COLA Cure | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

...cast fares less well, unable to break free of Sellars's spell, like automatons in a technocracy. Grace Shohet is properly bitchy as Goneril and Anne Clarke makes a vapidly cruel Regan but they remain one-dimensional. James Bundy plays Kent with remarkable sincerity but his brawl with Oswald (a surprisingly meaty role in the hands of David Prum) sinks to absurdity. Mathew Horsman and Judah Mandlebaum labor with Albany and Cornwall and Max Cantor skates onstage intermittently as the court's errand...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Tragedy of Excess | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...addition to a monthly Birch Society Bulletin, which 80-years-old Welch still writes, and a weekly reactionary news analysis magazine called The Review of the News, the society publishes hundreds of pamphlets like "McCarthy: The Truth, the Smear and the Lesson." and "They killed the President : Lee Harvey Oswald Wasn't Alone," (Surprise, he had help from Communists). The society also runs Western Island Press, publishers of conservative tracts like "Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan," an attack on the Senator's performance at Chappaquiddick. To complete the distribution system, the society sells its books and magazines...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: John Birch Society: Cranky Adolescence | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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