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...consensus was that inflation would continue at about 5%-a previously painful rate described by Washington Economist Robert Nathan as something that "I'm afraid we are going to say 'Let's learn to live with.' " In effect, the economists agree that many U.S. decision makers have inflated the size of the price increases they consider tolerable...
...agers ("We love you, Hanky-poo") and Alabama Governor George Wallace. NBC stands ready to interrupt its regularly scheduled programs to show Aaron hitting Nos. 712 through 715. Computer analysts, astrologists and assorted clairvoyants are issu ing almost daily predictions on his chances for the record this year (latest consensus: a cliffhanger until the season's last day, Sept. 30). Aaron himself says: "I don't know. I can't predict. I just want to keep messing up that computer...
...view, to hold youth responsible for what was good in society or to blame it for what was bad. In this way, one could avoid the complexities and ambiguities of a genuine analysis of American life. Historian Eric Goldman expects the 1970s to be a "period of re-emerging consensus, when the young will not be so critical of the old and when the old will not be so rigidly protective of their values." That may be a somewhat sunny view of a decade that could produce almost anything -and probably will. But at least one fissure in American life...
...Riesman's view, the erosion of the old standards has not been accompanied by the growth of new loyalties. "No new ethic, academic or intellectual, has taken the place of the older relative consensus about values...
Spaghetti Emporium offers many good things to the Cambridge diner: the food, according to popular consensus, probably is not one of them...