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...further ease worries about inflation, Carter last week minimized the quarrel between the White House and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burn over the Fed's tight rein on growth in the money supply. The Fed's policy stands to restrain prices, but at the expense of slower economic growth. Claimed Carter of his relations with Burns, despite evidence to the contrary: "We've never had any disagreements on [economic]subjects...
...disturbed by the disagreement between the White House and crusty, conservative Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who is widely respected in the business community. Fearing stepped-up inflation, Burns wants to slow the growth of the money supply. Carter's liberal economic advisers argue that too tight a rein may send the economy into a tailspin...
Sullivan's specialty is not pulling strings to win votes and influence people. While Vellucci works to keep his name in the public eye and good food in the stomachs of his supporters, Sullivan plays the cautious, unsensational business executive, trying to rein in municipal spending, draw in more federal funds and clamp down on the city's carefully-watched property tax rate...
...years, the short, , rotund judge, now 78, has dominated Utah legal affairs, terrorizing attorneys and angering government officials. Now, however, a determined posse of federal and state officials have mounted a strenuous effort to rein in the freewheeling Ritter. The U.S. Attorney for Utah, Ramon Child, last month filed an unprecedented petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, demanding Ritter's disqualification from any case involving the Federal Government. Last week Utah Attorney General Robert Hansen filed a similar plea for all cases involving his state. In Washington, the Senate has authorized an admittedly superfluous third...
Notable exceptions are the trio of essays that conclude the book, one of which Clarke included in his sworn testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Space Science in 1975. Clarke gave full rein to his imagination in this encounter, tantalizing the committee members with the possibility of laying a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit all the way down to the earth's surface. Payloads could then be sent up the cable by mechanical means, creating an "electric elevator to space, or a Streetcar Named Heaven." Clarke ended his formal remarks before the Congressmen with a reversal...