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...prospect for Treasury Secretary . . . Age 52 . . . Member of Democrats' "shadow cabinet" during Nixon-Ford era . . . Senior fellow of Brookings Institution, Washington's liberal think tank, since 1969; also economics professor at University of Maryland, where he earned his Ph.D. . . . As Lyndon Johnson's budget director during years of Great Society and Viet Nam buildup, was one of earliest important advocates in Government of the new politics and economics of austerity . . . Argued that new programs should not be launched without careful forecasting of the economy's "fiscal dividend"-the difference between expected future growth in Government income...
There is a chance that none of the defendants will come to trial, for two reasons: 1) indictment of the Americans might lead to pressures for their extradition-an unlikely prospect; 2) with Italy asking for U.S. loans to shore up the lira, pressing criminal charges against U.S. citizens might seem tactless. But the commission may act against the Americans anyway, if only to diffuse Italian cynicism about politicians and that international symbol of trouble-Lockheed...
...elect Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who said he was lured to the receptions by the prospect of free pretzels, said he instead faced questions from students that he described as "incisive, perceptive and illuminating...
Many of the studies seem trivial and absurd. After encountering a study like "Resource Allocation Models for the Arkansas State Police," one is hardly tempted to wade through the remaining hundreds of thousands of pages on the shelves. Neither does the prospect of learning the arcane contents of "An Annotated Bibliography of Dynamic Cloud Modeling" set the pulse racing. Yet there are many striking and subtly disconcerting papers tacked away in the stacks. For example, how did Rand researchers get the extensive bibliographical data they included in a profile done in the late '60s of an elite six-man Vietcong...
This moment, which should have been startling and funny, is actually thoroughly predictable and calculated. Watching Silver Streak is like leaning out a moving train window and looking ahead: you can see everything coming a mile off. The prospect is not entirely pleasant either. Besides the dialogue, which sounds like counsel from "The Playboy Adviser," the twists of plot have been extensively mapped by previous train thrillers, from The Lady Vanishes to Gary Grant's interlude aboard the Twentieth Century Limited in North by Northwest. Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Scenarist Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude) are simply...