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...fight goes down to its final stage, Proxmire's groundwork is largely done. Testimony of economists and environmentalists is already in, and the body of information he has developed against the plane over the years is well known to his colleagues. He does not wring votes from fellow Senators with deals and high-pressure promises, as members of the club would do, but he relishes the upcoming battle for the final handful of votes: "It's going to be a goddam interesting week...
...inflation while throwing exactly three Americans out of work?the three members of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. That partisan hyperbole encouraged the illusion that inflation can be stopped painlessly. It cannot. Whatever else the Government does, it must tighten spending and credit policies in order to wring excess demand out of the economy. Removing the excess inevitably bounces the marginal workers back onto the streets again...
...local contracting groups one by one. President Nixon, the C.E.D. said, should demand repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires payment of "prevailing" local wages on most federally assisted construction projects. In practice, that really means payment of the highest rate that any union has been able to wring out of any contractor in the area...
...addition, the mutual funds?notably the newer, smaller "gogo" funds ?were largely responsible for the dazzling but dangerous cult of "performance." This notion, which began taking root in 1965, was that aggressive institutions could wring more profit from a rising market by swinging in and out of glamour issues than by holding on to solid stocks. Trading volume?and brokers' profits?rocketed. Go-go funds made great leaps, and even some staid trust officers in banks joined the stampede to buy and sell. According to a study released last week by the Twentieth Century Fund, the trading policies...
...offstage into a piercing primeval wail of lamentation. Disappointingly to some, this is as near as Olivier comes in this characterization to performing at full classical pitch. Nor does he modulate to softer emotions. He tears angrily through the "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech, from which most Shylocks wring the last drop of pathos...