Word: weil
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...aide responsible for putting together McGovern's tax and welfare reform package was Gordon Weil, who covered the European Common Market for The Washington Post before he came to work for McGovern...
...Weil dates the decision to offer proposals on the tax and welfare issues back to June 1971, when he and McGovern met with a number of liberal economists to work out an economics agenda for the campaign. Tax reform and Nixon's failure to achieve full employment were put at the top of the agenda, but Weil remembers "mention of a need to do something in the welfare reform area...
After the June meeting, MIT economists Edwin Kuh (an informal McGovern adviser since 1968) and Lester Thurow began developing McGovern's tax reform proposals. On his own, Weil began looking into the issue of welfare reform, seeking occasional advice from Kuh and Nancy Amaday, a staffer on McGovern's Senate Committee on Nutrition...
...Weil sent Kuh a copy of the Fair Share plan and asked him to look it over and show it to members of the June economics advisory group. He says Kuh reported back to him that he had done so and that the group though the plan was "reasonable...even attractive...
...fact, may be one reason he is held in low esteem by some scientists. As Institute Physicist Freeman Dyson notes: "There are a lot of scientists who consider religion as a childhood disease." Logician Morton White dismissed Bellah's work as "pedestrian and pretentious." Mathematician André Weil called him "not of the intellectual and academic quality of a professor at the institute." When Geertz challenged their credentials to judge, White retorted: "This guy doesn't write in Chinese, in Japanese, or in mathematical symbols we can't understand. This wasn't a case...