Word: stein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowry's ten months in office had been most salutary. He had reorganized the staff and started a Wednesday meeting session at which heads of departments could hash out their problems. He had promoted an ambitious acquisition program, whose most notable purchase was 47 paintings from the Gertrude Stein collection for $6,500,000. He had hired enterprising young associate curators to put the maturing Modern in touch once again with the artistic underground. Most of the staff thought it a shame that Lowry had to leave almost before he had moved his furniture into the modest...
Timetable for Transition. The economic consequences of peace would depend on the speed of its return. Only recently has the Administration begun a study, headed by Presidential Economic Adviser Herbert Stein, of how the transition should be made. No one expects a difficult conversion, partly because the war has driven a relatively small wedge into the economy. The defense budget accounts for only 9% of the nation's output of goods and services, compared with nearly 13% in Korea and 41% in World War II. Direct spending on the war amounts to 3% of the gross national product...
Nixon suggested that the dividend be split between a tax reduction and social programs, particularly aid to education. Before he joined the Administration, Economic Adviser Stein headed a Committee for Economic Development group that proposed spending most of the money to alleviate urban, racial and poverty problems. The group also recommended cutting the basic corporate income tax back to 38%, down from the "temporary" Korean War rate of 48%. In any case, debate over the peace dividend should lead to a valuable new appraisal of the nation's priorities-and its fresh opportunities...
THOUGH prices are in their steepest climb in 18 years, Washington's economic seers have repeatedly insisted, as Nixon Adviser Herbert Stein said last week, that "we have turned a corner." Now, at last, there is confirmation of sorts in a group of economic telltales known as the "leading" indicators...
...only home race of the season, the Crimson made it look almost too easy as it finished the 2000 meters in 5:55.2, only three seconds short of the course record Harvard set in last year's Stein Cup regatta...