Word: hardin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toll, Boris Yeltsin, 58, the former Moscow party boss who has achieved unusual visibility and enormous popularity as one of Mikhail Gorbachev's most acerbic critics, still impressed Americans with his charm and appreciation of the U.S. His knack for an ingratiating riposte was apparent at John and Vicki Hardin's hog farm in Danville, Ind. "Would Mr. Yeltsin like to see some pigs?" the host asked. "I'd prefer to see some Americans," Yeltsin cracked, "but pigs will...
...politics was local politics. A Missoula newspaper gave second billing to statehood, emphasizing instead the selection of the first U.S. Senators. "It was a surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman...
...state senator custodian of notarial records in New Orleans, a part-time sinecure that paid its last beneficiary $105,000. Well, said the Governor when asked about this venture in old-fashioned patronage, he would move to do away with that cushy job. Ed Hardin, president of Louisiana's Common Cause, feels Roemer is much too autocratic and tends to act without enough research. Says Hardin: "He's assembled power that makes Huey Long look like a piker...
Georgia Southern 63, Hardin-Simmons...
...difficult to administer in practice. To make them work, governments must monitor hundreds of thousands of wage and price decisions. Moreover, past experience with controls, including the wage-price freeze imposed by President Nixon in 1971, shows that inflation returns once the restrictions are lifted. Says Economist Clifford Hardin, who was a member of the Cost of Living Council that oversaw Nixon's freeze: "Wage and price controls can't work. They are self-defeating...