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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems is that the CEA is among Washington's smallest bureaucracies: its staff numbers only about 45, including 25 economists. The result, says Washington Economist Gary Fromm, is that "the CEA cannot anticipate problems and prepare long-range analysis. Without a bigger staff, it has to shoot from the hip." Fromm has recommended doubling the staff, and Schultze has promised to consider the idea. At his present pace, it is difficult to forecast when he will have the time...
...current fashion of civil war and balkanization, and there will be one afterwards. Its members are the unreconstructed heirs of the tradition of nationalist politics, the victims of American racism, all those who reject the American way of life. Some of them will always be furious enough to shoot up the House of Representatives or blow up a Wall Street restaurant. The world cannot be run by fear of fanatics, but neither can a nation be constituted through wishful thinking and simple majorities...
Frustration turned to desperation as Northeastern went to a run-and-shoot style of play resulting in poor shot selection...
Perhaps it is the Santa Ana, blowing in from the Mojave Desert. Or a kind of Morse code flashed out by the traffic lights along Sunset Boulevard. Or maybe John Galley, head of production at Warner Bros., has the answer. "At best," he says, "this business is a crap shoot." Whatever the reason, each year Hollywood producers put their money on only two or three numbers-two or three kinds of movies. The themes for 1977: war, jocks and women...
Daley's running of the Police Department proved one of the more visible examples of his power. Everyone watched in April of 1968 when he issued his famous "shoot-to-kill" arsonists order after the riots following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In August of that year the nation watched again as policemen's billy-clubs did their work in Lincoln Park, clubbing Democratic presidential chances along with the demonstrators...