Word: taber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sieve, Tom Martinson, surrendered three more tallies as Harvard iced the contest, and more of the Arena's all-green seats were showing by mid-period as the fans cleared out. Dartmouth finally spoiled Blair's shutout at the 9:49 mark on Allen Taber's power-play goal. A hail of tennis balls, fish, and a chicken followed, delaying the game several minutes...
...members turned to a more cheerful phenomenon: the surprising surge in innovative businesses in America today, and the new generation of capitalists who are risking, and often winning, huge sums with their venturesome companies. "It is the other, upbeat side of the economy," says Business Senior Editor George M. Taber. Adds Staff Writer Alexander Taylor, who wrote the cover story: "Up to now, it seemed as if opportunities for making great fortunes like those of the Rockefellers and Carnegies had been cut off. It is heartening that people are taking chances and sometimes succeeding beyond their wildest dreams...
Another valuable resource for Taber is the TIME Board of Economists, which holds quarterly meetings with the Economy & Business section. Established in 1969, the board consists of top economic experts whose freewheeling, on-the-record discussions provide, as Taber puts it, "a high-powered seminar by the country's leading business and academic economists, who perform a vital service by tipping us off to what the economic community is thinking about and pointing out future trends." (Current members: Otto Eckstein of Harvard University, Martin Feldstein of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Alan Greenspan of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Walter...
Last week's meeting of the board was particularly useful to Taber and Charles Alexander, who wrote this week's cover story on how fares "Reaganomics." The economists' comments amplified key points to be dealt with in the story, which was checked by Reporter-Researcher Bernard Baumohl. The guest participant at the meeting was Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who a few days later gave her newsmaking testimony before the House Budget Committee...
...Says Taber: "The Reagan Administration will clearly rise or fall along with its economic program, now under panicky and premature fire before it is fairly begun. Reagan could be leading the country toward a breakthrough in its economic history, but only if he can convince the public and the Congress to stick with...