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Though many private economists and corporate planners will have to redo their homework as a result of the new figures, and though much of the Administration's tax and economic program has been based on the discredited statistics, the revision does not change any of the economy's basic trends. The revised G.N.P. showed that the peak of the 1958-60 expansion and the bottom of the 1960 recession occurred a quarter earlier than believed, lessons that are valuable mostly for Government economic planners. Says Arthur Okun, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers: "The new figures...
...thought that the victory had been won. When we got out, we discovered it was all a hoax. We had lost a real opportunity to redo Albany, and we lost an initiative that we never regained...
...least holding its own. Russian workmanship has disillusioned many Afghans, e.g., the surfacing on Kabul's streets proved so shoddy that the Afghans had to redo them all. In contrast, the U.S. has made a big effort in the education field and seen it pay off. Some $14.8 million has been spent on school building and scholarships; 460 bright Afghan students have been sent...
...husband gave Knox a psychological lift by offering him a writing retreat and private-chaplain status at their country estate, Aldenham. With this haven in view, Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From the beginning Knox assumed that he was to redo the entire Bible. This led to misunderstandings with the hierarchy, further aggravated by traditionalist opposition to the translation as it progressed. In return for a modest stipend for living expenses while he was working on the translation, Knox signed over his copyright to the hierarchy. At the time of his death...
...runs to the alcoholic playwright (Lee Cobb), urges him to start rewriting, assaults him with such rancid boffolas as: "Your cough is the illegitimate child of you and those cigarettes." They redo the play in four weeks; the secretary is cast in the female lead, the play is a smash, the girl proposes to Gable in Sardi...