Word: steins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual rate of some 6%, threatening uncomfortable retail rises later on. Wholesale food prices rose sharply after dropping for two months; beef on the hoof hit an alltime high. Industrial commodity prices, which are at the heart of the Phase II control program, showed no sign of dropping. Herbert Stein, President Nixon's chief economic adviser, concluded that no changes are yet necessary in the controls, but he also added: "We need them rigorously applied...
...mutual funds. She had no college degree and had worked only briefly as an ad-agency receptionist before becoming a Manhattan housewife and the mother of three children. Landing a job was no problem. She and her husband, a trade-book publisher, were friends of Dreyfus Corp. Chairman Howard Stein. But that friendship-and some courses in economics at Columbia -got her a job only as a $6,000-a-year statistician. It was enough to give her a chance to show that she had a canny way of sizing up stocks. Now after spending three years co-managing...
...inflation to rage much too long before imposing controls. When he finally did put on controls, however, he won new sympathy from executives, including Democrats. "You have to give him credit for having the flexibility to change from a disastrous policy of tight money and laissez-faire," says Howard Stein, head of the Dreyfus Corp., who was chief fund raiser for the 1968 campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy...
...Paris-based Trib (circ. 121,000) is no mere letter from home. It is far different from the daily described by The New Yorker's Janet Planner as "the village newspaper" of the American expatriate colony in Paris, the favorite of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Increasingly it serves to inform a widespread audience about both the U.S. and the world. It is read with respect in the power centers of Europe, where English is now the second language. Nineteen copies a day go to Peking, and the Kremlin also subscribes. Editor Murray "Buddy" Weiss...
...trouble recreating the disturbed melodrama of Isadora Duncan's career, recently popularized by Vanessa Redgrave--the erratic public acceptance of her work, the flamboyance of her marriages and the tragedies of her children's deaths and her own. And finally, Douglas Day helps to debunk the image of Gertrude Stein as blue-stocking and "great Jewish Buddha," by quoting Braque's comment that "Miss Stein understood nothing of what went on around her." Admitting that this judgment may be too harsh. Day concludes that Stein was an intelligent and lucky opportunist, "clever enough to make herself indispensable to those...