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...James Tobin, who received his degree from the Extension School today and was in attendance for the speech, said the address “was pretty ominous. It suits the year of 9/11 well...
...James Tobin, who received his degree from the Extension School today and was in attendance for the speech, said the address “was pretty ominous. It suits the year of 9/11 well...
...Port Authority, which built and operates the New York-area port facilities, airports, tunnels and bridges, is famous for its engineering achievements. Its judgment in architecture is another matter. It was former P.A. chief Austin Tobin who chose Minoru Yamasaki to design the Twin Towers. Just a few years later, the city of St. Louis, Mo., blew up Yamasaki's much despised Pruitt-Igoe housing project. A large crowd there turned out to cheer...
DIED. JAMES TOBIN, 84, Nobel-prizewinning economist and adviser to President John F. Kennedy; in New Haven, Conn. A Yale professor and promoter of the Keynesian theory, which advocates government intervention to regulate economic cycles, Tobin crafted the Kennedy tax cut that spurred the boom of the early 1960s. His Nobel-winning portfolio-selection theory--which posits that investors do not simply seek the highest yielding assets but vary them according to risk tolerance and other factors--changed conventional thinking on how Americans spend and invest money...
...isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony awards, the last for her role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus, top adviser during the Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his Portfolio Selection theory; in New Haven. INDICTED. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm, 88, on one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence related to the failed Enron...