Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic team grow more ominous. Month by month recently, the economy has sagged more than the Government or private forecasters have expected. Some economists are openly mulling over possibilities that even a short while ago were unthinkable. For example, just before Greenspan took office last month, his consulting firm, Townsend-Greenspan, warned clients that "although we do not expect a breakdown in the financial system near term, it cannot be ruled out as a possibility at some point in the future...
...this month a converted movie palace will open as the Austin Ritz, a 700-seat theater devoted to country rock. The city now has 65 resident bands; they all work regularly, since Austin's 28 clubs and bars often hire as many as three bands a weekend. Says Townsend Miller, country-music columnist of the Austin American-Statesman: "Austin is country gone berserk." The music is country picking and basic bluegrass, leavened with rock and lightly glazed with acid...
...rare chance to hear Franz's Piano Concerto No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 25. The soloist was the eminent Gary Graffman, that master of diverse styles for whom the score was reconstructed and edited from the original edition by the New York composer and musicologist Douglas Townsend...
...remain an outside critic-consulting when asked, praising and needling as he saw fit. His reputation surely did not need whatever prestige-or damage-would accrue from a high job in a Government preoccupied with impeachment. He earns more than $300,000 annually as head of Manhattan's Townsend-Greenspan & Co., an economic consulting firm that has some 100 blue-chip corporate and Wall Street clients. He has earned the respect, too, of fellow economists of all persuasions, including his colleagues on TIME'S nine-member Board of Economists. Erudite and witty, with a fine mastery of business...
...stands, Greenspan decided that he would prefer to go to college. In 1948 he was graduated summa cum laude in economics from New York University. He worked for The Conference Board (a business research group) for a while, then founded his now-thriving consulting firm in 1953 with William Townsend, a Wall Street bond trader, who died in 1958. Presently a bachelor, Greenspan was married for one year before a divorce...