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...someone over 30, "rapping" just means knocking on wood; so steer away from contemporary jargon, a semantic roadblock that can easily alienate those who don't understand it. N.B.: lay off the word "fascist" unless you're describing Mussolini...
being at all spectacular, manages to steer clear of bathos, canned rage and the peculiar, subliminal blurriness that so often afflicts stories about musicians. Al Young's hero is MC Moore, a guitarist and songwriter for a teen-age group called the Masters of Ceremony. The Masters are one of countless Detroit combos manned by young blacks, hungrily looking for gigs and chances to record. In his peak year MC writes 75 songs. One of them, Snakes, becomes a modest local hit, earning the Masters a few hundred dollars as well as some small sense of accomplishment...
...trouble in HEW began at the top. Secretary Finch had tried to steer between the necessities of the Administration's hard-line budget trimming and the demands of his progressive subordinates, many of them Democrats. In the process, he satisfied no one-least of all himself. "He keeps everything inside himself," says a high-placed HEW physician. "That's why he's sick-it's destroying...
...failure of fiscal policy has left Burns in a position he devoutly hoped to avoid. In a sense, he is being forced to try to steer the economy by monetary policy alone?or, as one economist put it, "play God." The Federal Reserve must try to gauge the exact amount of money that the economy needs, and economics is not that precise a science. Burns has other arguments against exclusive reliance on monetary policy. If money is squeezed, he says, the policy unfairly hurts particular types of borrowers. Among the victims: local governments, which often must sell bonds in order...
...they have always functioned as a supreme court of money. Today, the Federal Reserve's power to control the flow of new money into business and influence interest rates for lending makes it about the only arm of Government left with much room to maneuver in trying to steer the economy. As businessmen watch their profits drop, investors see stock prices sink, and housewives note other prices continuing to rise, everybody is waiting to see what Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and his fellow governors will...