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...TIME board consists of former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder, now at Princeton University; former Reagan adviser Martin Feldstein, now at Harvard University; Stephen Roach from Morgan Stanley; Allen Sinai from Primark Decision Economics; Edward Yardeni from Deutsche Morgan Grenfell; and J. Antonio Villamil from Washington Economics Group. An influential lot, for sure. Yet they can't measure whether computers are making people more productive. They can't agree on whether Americans are better or worse off than a few years ago. They don't know if the economy can grow faster and unemployment recede further without whipping up inflation...
Isabela because of overcrowding in mainland prisons. The day before they boarded Valinda, the prisoners mutinied. They raided the arsenal, disarmed the few remaining guards, then pillaged Villamil (pop. about 200), the island's administrative settlement. Loading their loot into a pair of stolen boats, 21 of them set course for the mainland, hoping for a chance to seize a more seaworthy craft en route; Valinda became their prize...
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