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Most important, they bring to the CEA expertise in areas of critical importance to the Administration. Malkiel will generally involve himself in such broad economic subjects as monetary policy and tax matters. A specialist in money markets, he favors a mix of Government programs that would spur business spending to boost production. MacAvoy concentrates more on particular markets, like transportation, than on the overall economy. Among other things, he has advocated deregulation of the price of natural gas, a field in which he is an acknowledged expert. If nothing else, the quality of the latest appointments should go far toward...
...nations have paid the market the ultimate compliment by trying to introduce elements of market pricing into their own economies, so far with meager success. The trademarks of Communist economies remain indelible: low productivity, shortages of goods, lengthy queues in stores, years-long waits for apartments. In order to spur initiative, most Communist countries also have huge and growing differences in real income (and perquisites) between commissar and collective farmer. Nikita Khrushchev once replied to a charge that the Soviet Union was going capitalist: "Call it what you will, incentives are the only way to make people work harder...
With the boat already shipped over, the crew has been practicing fours this past weekend. Baker said that he entered fours in all of the races in case illness affects the eight. A decision on the specific makeup of the four would be "spur of the moment." he said...
After Nixon had given his final, formal approval to resume the bombing, however, he learned that his counsel John Dean had begun to talk to the Watergate prosecutors. Nixon knew that the renewed bombing would spur violent criticism in Congress, in the country at large and all over the world. He also knew that Dean's testimony was going to make life difficult for him. Loath to deal with simultaneous severe criticism on two major fronts, he rescinded his approval of the raids. The North Vietnamese infringements continued unchecked...
...deficit higher; he believes that that is as far as the nation dare go to stimulate recovery while holding inflation down. That stand puts him on a collision course with the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, which seems determined, at the risk of refueling inflation, to spend more in order to spur a faster upturn...