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...Rudin, are not amused, and Rudin's Kremlin rivals want to use the crisis to get the old curmudgeon bounced. Back in Washington, Bill Matthews and Assistant for National Security Affairs, Stanislaw (read Zbigniew) Poklewski, and Secretary of State David (read Cyrus) Lawrence want to use the shortage to wring concessions out of the Russians...
...however, the world had turned upside down. Policymakers could not wring 13 per cent inflation out of the American economy. Unemployment was rising. Gasoline price soared to levels that resulted in gunfights in filling stations, while oil threatened to bring down the dollar and the rest of the international mentary system with it. Even some economists said that maybe the world would be in better shape if policymakers had pursued randomly-chosen policies...
...advances of historical studies in the century are fascinating, but trying to understand them without the facts is absurd. Harvard graduate students trying to wring "arguments" out of undergraduates concerning subjects of which they were almost totally ignorant was something I witnessed on numerous occasions. The worst example. I came across was a Government course that proposed to teach the political economy of France. Italy, Britain and Germany over a period of several centuries in one semester. Since the majority of the students taking the course didn't have a clue about European history, let alone European polities, the result...
...Weaver is the kind of manager who can wring his pitching staff dry, and only have them running down by the Super Bowl," Red Sox pitching coach Al Jackson said last month...
Most of the TIME economists are satisfied with the Federal Reserve Board's middle-of-the-way monetary policy. One exception is David Grove, who argues that a much tighter money policy and a deep recession are needed to wring inflation out of the system. As the recession deepens, Okun would prefer that the Fed ease off and promote some expansion of money supply, which has been fairly tight over the last six months. Warns Okun: "Keeping to that policy in a recession is like wearing an overcoat in summer...