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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...text had undergone seven drafts. Checking a tendency toward overstatement, Carter deliberately adopted a cautious, realistic, even humble, attitude toward his struggle with inflation. "I do not have all the answers," he admitted. "Nobody does." He conceded frankly: "We have tried to control it, but we have not been successful." His new policy, he said, "is almost certain not to succeed if success means quick or dramatic changes. A long-term disease requires long-term treatment." But he pleaded: "It is up to us to make the improvements we can, even at the risk of partial failure, rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War on Inflation: Stage II | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...year slide in the dollar is unwarranted and must be stopped because it "threatens economic progress at home and abroad and the success of our anti-inflation program," Carter said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Justice Department Investigates Banks On Charges of Currency Manipulation | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson, its football following is constantly looking for easy, quick answers to a tough and perplexing season. Critics and comrades alike seem too eager to point accusing fingers at quarterback Larry Brown for the relative success and failure of this year's squad. That's wrong, if for no other reason than it drastically overlooks the injuries of Wayne Moore and Craig Beling, as well as the inspiring play of Ralph Polillio, Rich Horner, Matt Granger, Marco Coric and Bob Woolway. Tack on eight points in the two losses and shelve the remedial officiating in the Cornell and Princeton games...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Reckoning Hourly | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...opening day in 1976, and her stats have been every bit as amazing as the Crimson's turnaround. The K-House senior has notched 20 shutouts en route to a 25-7-6 mark, and although she's the first to modestly downplay her contribution to the squad's success, the kudos continues to roll...

Author: By Jon Ledecky, | Title: Debi's Dream Comes True | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

...Dolls is one hell of a lot of fun to produce, and those ever-enterprising Leverett folks have managed to assemble one of the biggest aggregations of Harvard theater talent in recent memory on the tiny Old Library stage. As with most musicals, strong leads almost always guarantee success with this show; this production has them, plus an energetic if necessarily small cast. And most of all, director Leo-Pierre Roy has what you call your can't miss show, and that's where the chutzpah comes...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Lady Luck Rolls Again | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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