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...Press restraint is almost a contradiction in terms. So it is up to the judiciary. The judge must be a modern legal entrepreneur who can manage the business of a fair trial by persuading jurors to be objective, eliminating those who cannot be and exercising a restraining influence on all extraneous forces that could cause a tilt. Theodore R. Kupferman, Associate , Supreme Court Appellate Division, New York City...
...Jazz and the White Critic, said so eloquently what took Bland about fifty minutes to express ineffectively in this 1959 film. Bland contends that white musicians have taken over and subsequently destroyed black jazz. Bland bases his contentions on the argument that jazz is built upon the contradiction between restraint and freedom which only blacks, through their heritage of suffering in America, can understand...
...continue to pull up other prices. Okun sees some of the biggest increases coming in nonunion sectors, as employers voluntarily pay more out of a sense of obligation to inflation-wounded workers and then pass the costs on to customers. In any event, says Pechman, some form of reasonable restraint is needed now in the form of direct and selective intervention by Government, or by next summer "we are going to have general wage and price controls" enforced by a huge OPA-style bureaucracy such as existed during World...
...summit will make a difference. It showed that inflation, though the nation's primary economic concern, is not the only one. Policy is going to have to be broader than merely banging the drum for the "oldtime religion" of monetary and fiscal restraint. Though the battle against inflation will not be abandoned, economic policy will likely be taking on added dimensions, notably those dealing with unemployment, supply bottlenecks and the problems of the poor. Murray L. Weidenbaum Professor of Economics Washington University St. Louis The writer was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for economic policy during the Nixon Administration...
Wilson's cause was boosted last month when Britain's Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.), an umbrella organization representing 10 million workers in more than 130 unions, voted almost unanimously to support the much touted "social contract." Under this informal agreement, the unions promised to exercise voluntary wage restraint in exchange for the Labor Party's promise of economic and social reforms. Since wage increases are expected to be a chief source of British inflation during the coming year, success of the social contract is Labor's crucial selling point to financially panicked voters...