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Many economists are not yet persuaded that Carter's essentially conservative fiscal policies will provide enough to sustain the economy. Says IBM Vice President David Grove, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I agree that we want to restrain rising prices, but a more expansionary policy could be followed without aggravating inflation." For the moment, however, Jimmy Carter is probably too bedazzled by the success of his cautious management to listen to such advice...
...Farm will the 'ideal' state be?" In the end it may just be best not to delve too deeply into Luscomb's beliefs and decide whether we agree lest we fall victim to the same riduculing or harassing frame of mind as those 1920's reactionaries who sought to restrain the needed reforms of society, economics and politics that Luscomb and her ilk fought for, even when they didn't always see their dreams fulfilled in their lifetime. It is, after all, so easy to mock but so much harder to do. And Luscomb has spent a lifetime demanding "what...
Even in our own day, medical ideas change as often as skirt lengths. Until recently, U.S. doctors almost always insisted on re moving the breast when cancer occurred there. Now, under pres sure from women horrified by the prospect of such mutilation, they are finally beginning to restrain their scalpels and try al ternatives, notably radiation therapy, that have long been fa vored by European doctors. Similarly, many doctors are now having second thoughts about the value of hysterectomies, which are about as common as tonsillectomies...
...protect what remains of the U.S. shoe industry, Strauss has negotiated a tentative agreement with two big exporters to the U.S.-Taiwan and South Korea-that would provide for cutbacks in their shipments. The White House hopes that other major exporters, notably Spain, Brazil and Uruguay, will continue to restrain their shoe exports...
...opponents of ERA would restrain their hysterical fear of coed toilets and homosexual marriages long enough to read the 52 simple words of the proposed amendment, they would probably be intensely embarrassed at having been duped by the Anita Bryants and Phyllis Schlaflys and their phantom issues...