Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon may gain an important ally. Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that the severely restrictive policy has been correct so far, but now he is beginning to wonder whether the time has come to advocate some loosening. He admits that the present monetary and fiscal policies, if continued indefinitely, "would make it impossible to sustain full employment...
HELLER: By the middle of next year, I would expect to see our G.N.P. deflator* down from its present level of 5.2% to below 4%-maybe somewhere between...
NATHAN: Being a political realist, if I were in the Nixon Administration. I would be doing much more in terms of leverage-like selling off materials from the strategic stockpiles. Tariffs also present another possibility. Instead of moving toward the protective direction, which we seem to be doing, one might move a little bit in the opposite direction...
...does not even write in German, his first language. He is, in fact, a 42-year-old Londoner (by adoption) who writes in English. His past still troubles him so that he refuses, for instance, to read the writing of most Germans, including Grass. The present book, an odd autobiography, is chiefly a record of personal transformations, marked by an oppressive list of allegiances abandoned...
Shuttling between the intriguing past and the insipid present, Richard Young, a priggish fellow, attempts to keep his vulgarian wife ignorant of his new time travel kick but succeeds only in riveting her-and a wary community's-attention upon his strange behavior. Du Maurier's view of both modern and medieval marriage is remarkably waspish, but it is this very connubial bitchiness that keeps the novel from a routine Gothicism and makes it a stylish, contemporary entertainment...