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...Treasury Secretary William Simon has put his Virginia estate up for sale and will return to his home in New Jersey and pick up his career on Wall Street, possibly at his old firm, Salomon Brothers, where he was senior partner for eight years. At 48, Simon has ample time to test the political waters for a possible run for Governor in the Garden State...
...reduce unemployment, lower interest rates and curb inflation, has been trying hard to capture the middle ground. He has no single major economic adviser, but keeps in touch with a number of experts of widely varying persuasions. One is Henry Kaufman, a partner in the Wall Street firm of Salomon Bros., whose views are generally regarded as conservative. Kaufman reports that Jackson has "shown a willingness to try to understand the issues." The two do not always agree: Kaufman is exceedingly dubious about Jackson's advocacy of breaking up the major oil companies but says the Senator...
Equus takes place in the present in Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in Southern Egland. The child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Brian Bedford) is asked by the local magistrate, Heather Salomon (Sheila Smith) to take on an unusual case: a disturbed young man who was brought to her court for commiting a crime less horrible in its consequences than in its explanation, a crime that is in one sense an unspeakable mystery. Alan Strang (Dai Bradley), the boy, arrives at the hospital in a state of extreme catatonia, singing advertising jingles or watching television during the day and living in a world...
...rates that speed recovery also drive money out of the country, aggravating the payments deficit and eroding confidence in the dollar. In large part because interest rates in the U.S. are lower than in Europe the dollar lately has been depressed on world markets, and it remains undervalued. Observed Salomon Bros' Henry Kaufman, a leading Wall Street economist: "If the dollar continues to weaken, we may be forced to reintroduce currency restrictions such as the Interest Equalization Tax, or perhaps some other measures...
...come in with a towering reputation that he acquired almost overnight. A millionaire Wall Street bond trader for the firm of Salomon Bros., Simon entered Government in December 1972 as Treasury's No. 2 man. At the height of the Arab oil embargo in December 1973, President Nixon named him to create the Federal Energy Office. Simon snapped out quick and crisp decisions on allocations, conservation measures and prices. There were some foulups, but Simon by sheer force of personality convinced Washington that someone had taken charge of what had been a confused energy policy...