Word: nathan
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...both March and April wholesale prices shot up at an annual rate of 14%-in part a result of the winter freeze. While no one expects that pace to continue, most board members think that the rate by year's end will still be 6% or more. Robert Nathan, a Washington consultant, noting sharp rises in industrial commodity prices and the inflationary impact of escalator clauses in union contracts, believes that prices at year's end could be climbing at a pace of 7%. Beryl Sprinkel, vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, is worried...
Calling Scanlon "the Presidents' man," William A. Lee, acting chief of University police, read congratulatory messages from President Bok and former president Nathan M. Pusey...
...Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology and Demography and one of the six new Harvard members, said yesterday he had not yet been notified of his election to the Academy. Keyfitz has done extensive research on the mathematics and social problems of population growth...
Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota, Arthur Okun of Brookings and Washington Consultant Robert Nathan, all Democrats, see potential flaws in the plan. The program's proposal to return money collected in higher gas and crude oil prices in the form of tax credits to consumers will, in Okun's view, boost living costs, kick up wage demands and add to the Consumer Price Index. All three members would prefer that the Government use the additional tax revenues to help keep the C.P.I, down-either by paring payroll taxes or by returning the money to states...
...program should be tougher, with more mandatory controls and less use of tax hikes to force conservation. Robert Nathan, a Washington economic consultant and also a member of the TIME Board of Economists, believes cars that get less than 15 miles to a gallon of gasoline should be banned. He would prohibit construction of buildings that waste energy. He also argues that utility companies should be prohibited from burning natural gas to generate electricity. But, he added, "if you can't do it any other way, then...