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such measures primarily affect the "market system," the collection of small retailers and individually practicing physicians, owners of car-repair shops and artists, pornographers et al., who, in a competitive system, are supposed to set prices according to what the market will bear Yet inflation, Galbraith says, is not caused by the market system, but by the far more powerful "planning system"-the big corporations that have gained near-total long-range control over their products' supplies, production, innovations, a manipulatable demand level, financing-and thus prices. In order to slow inflation caused by the planning system, Galbraith argues...
...Harvard's realtor, Hunneman makes leases, collects rent and provides maintenance service. Such service includes painting and major repair work...
...course, manners maketh men, not policies, and it will take more than affability and good intentions to repair the moral ravages of Watergate. The President still maintains a curious attitude of detachment from the White House and the office of the Presidency. He continues to view the Watergate scandal from the wings, implying that it was something done by people he hardly knew and for whom he was not responsible. His new State of the Union message last week left the clear impression that he feels Congress is almost entirely responsible for not producing an adequate legislative program...
...disadvantage in renting from the University, many tenants said, is the poor maintenance done on the houses. Repair work for most of the faculty homes is performed by Hunneman Realtors...
Although he declined to discuss the rent or value of the house, Zeckhauser said he thinks the rent is equitable. "I do a fair amount of work such as painting to maintain the house," he said. Hunneman does the major repair jobs, Zeckhauser said...