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...eleven-year legal battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial Valley from the big sell-off Last week President Carter ordered Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland to rein in his deputy fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Homestead Act Hits Home | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...advocated by western experts at the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the western-controlled International Monetary Fund. Aid to underdeveloped countries is often tied to policy recommendations, so that if Third World governments want to borrow capital for development, they must give multinational corporations free rein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sky Is Not Falling | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

...addition, Triffin believes, U.S. monetary authorities-including the Federal Reserve Board and the Comptroller of the Currency-should use their influence to persuade major U.S. banks to rein in the particularly openhanded lending policies of their foreign branches, especially in places like the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. At present these branches are subject to few of the checks that the Government places on banks located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Shaky Mountain of Debt | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...collision course over whether to stimulate the economy, there was speculation that Burns would try to thwart any presidential attempt at fiscal pump priming by tightening up sharply on credit. In recent weeks the Federal Reserve has indeed begun raising short-term interest rates-to try to rein in what it considers an overly rapid growth in the money supply now that inflation is bumping back up to double-digit levels. The Federal Reserve's move toward tighter credit, while welcomed by businessmen who share Burns' concern about inflation, helped to dash hopes of a spring rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Arthur Burns: Born Again at 73 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...background of a Tatooine scene. The barroom sequence, with its remarkable array of extraterrestrial freaks, is reminiscent of scenes written by Robert Heinlein and Samuel Delaney. But as Lucas and Producer Kurtz quickly point out, Star Wars is not science fiction but space fantasy. "Space fantasy allows you more rein to say what you want to say," explains Kurtz. "So that's what we call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: STAR WARS The Year's Best Movie | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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