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...Alan Stein bach New York City
Thurow's worries are challenged by Herbert Stein, a chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon. Defense expenditures, Stein argues, will be partly offset by Reagan's deep cuts in social spending. Income tax reductions will prompt enough saving and investment to spur productivity growth. In any case, Stein and like-minded economists point out, even in fiscal 1986, at the end of Reagan's planned military buildup, defense outlays will consume only about 7% of the gross national product?no more than in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the U.S. enjoyed noninflationary prosperity...
...stock manipulations by two vengeful Wall Street brokers who had gone bankrupt trying to promote stock in Hugel's former business. Denying any wrongdoing, Hugel nevertheless promptly resigned as the CIA's deputy director of operations and was quickly replaced by a career CIA operative, John Henry Stein. Sighed a White House aide with relief: "The matter is closed...
MOVING PICTURES: MEMORIES OF A HOLLYWOOD PRINCE by Budd Schulberg; Stein & Day; 501 pages...
...some respects, it's not nearly as interesting as Hammett's fiction, since Hammett's Ops have more to say about the state of things in the urban steamvat than any academic ever will. Still, it's worth reading if only for a hint at how right Gertrude Stein was As he said in an early story...