Word: rivlin
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...Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, warns that if the Administration forecasts prove too optimistic, "higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher unemployment would all work to produce more federal spending and larger federal deficits"; that would spur still more inflation. A way of hedging against that outcome, Rivlin suggests, would be to cut back on the big indexed programs like Social Security, so that higher-than-expected rises in the CPI would not push up federal spending quite so rapidly...
Author of "The Role of the Federal Government in Financing Higher Education and Systematic Thinking for Social Action," Rivlin has done numerous studies on the economics of education, public finance, population and the balance of payments...
...Rivlin said last night she was attracted to Radcliffe by its graduate program in economics, adding, "I have a nice feeling about Radcliffe...
...School of Education's Graduate Society last night presented medals to three alumnae: Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet; Rulan Chao Pian '44, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilization and of Music; and Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office...
...Rivlin, an economist and the first director of the newly created Congressional Budget Office, joined the Brookings Institute in 1957 as a research fellow and later became a senior fellow. In 1966 she became deputy assistant secretary for program analysis in the Department of Health Education and Welfare, a position that she held until former President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her assistant secretary for planning and evaluation...