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...than effective voluntary program but would not, the White House insists, include any form of wage-price controls. Carter's top economic advisers will begin poring over various proposals for a "Stage Two" anti-inflationary program this week. None of them are yet firm and as one Administration planner groaned: "All the alternatives are lousy...
...hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong with such a system...
Denison University Cyrus Eaton, L.H.D., industrialist. Far-seeing financier and industrial planner; beloved guardian of higher education; world-renowned worker for trade, peace and understanding among nations...
...Saudis have bought the best in people too. To make some order out of urban chaos, for example, they brought in Greek City Planner Constantinos Doxiadis. To build up their soccer teams, they hired British Coach Jimmy Hill. To head the new Applied Research Institute at the University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, they signed William Pickering, who as head of California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped put a man on the moon...
...college [Clarkson] in the era of the draft, and I had to change my career plans by postponing grad school and taking a job in the oil business that would probably hold off my draft board. Now I think that that taught me how to be a flexible planner...