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While visiting the Chase Manhattan Bank in 1958, I was introduced to Paul Volcker, a young economist who sat alone in a small spartan office. Chief Economist John Wilson told me that Volcker's job was to pretend he was the Federal Reserve Bank and predict what the Fed was about to do. In two decades, Volcker progressed from thinking what the Fed would do, to what it should do. He does it well...
...mention it lest they bring it about. Of course, cancer is a horror, but it exists all around us, as do nuclear weapons. Now we face cancer. And we cure a lot of cancer because of that. Nuclear weapons are a kind of international cancer. We can't pretend they don't exist. The Soviets decided 20 years ago that nuclear weapons would be decisive in an extreme situation. They concluded that if they ever had to go to war-which they do hope to avoid-they would have to make serious preparations for effective use of nuclear...
...only things you can make a living at. It's not greed, it's survival." Yet the manager of one huge Kentucky mine finds that trade-off untenable. Says he: "This isn't like mom-and-pop stores any more. If we continue to pretend that it is, the price will be paid in miners' lives...
Burma isn't seeking the true spirit of rock and roll along the lines of the 1976 British punk revolution. The sound is contemporary, but it isn't really different. Martin Swope is no Brian Eno, nor does he pretend to be. His goal at the moment is scraping together enough dough for a new sound system. Redefining the art isn't even on the agenda. Above all else, Burma is flexible, the way New Wave is flexible...
Children are the planet's most important natural resource. Congratulations to TIME for confronting the side of war most people pretend does not exist...