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...another CUNY graduate, Harvard Sociologist Nathan Glazer, seemed to put the ruling into better perspective: "It seems a highly reasonable notion that a college freshman be able to read and write at the eighth-grade level...
...ended last October and a horrifying 11% in 1974. On this one point, however, there are some serious disagreements in the predictions. Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president and economist of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, sees the end-of-1976 inflation rate at a low 5%; Robert Nathan, head of his own consulting firm, forecasts a startlingly high...
Cautious Policy. Nathan, whose consulting firm advises many unions, reports that "the attitude on the part of labor is pretty sour and pretty frustrated." He fears that unions will push for inflationary wage boosts, and he may be right. Last week the Teamsters Union was talking about demanding as much as a 50% increase for truckers over three years. Mechanics struck United Air Lines; the line canceled all flights through Christmas Eve. Other members of the Board of Economists, while granting that there is danger of a wage-price spiral, think it can be avoided. Some reasons: unemployment will still...
Democrats on the Board of Economists-Heller, Okun, Pechman, Nathan-argue that inflation could be most effectively restrained by Government pressure on industry and labor to pursue moderate price-wage policies, leaving Washington free to stimulate the economy more through tax cuts, federal spending and faster money-supply growth. But they have no hope of changing President Ford's mind. They expect him to present a budget for fiscal 1977 of $395 billion, or $28 billion less than if no effort were made to hold down spending, and to resist further tax cuts not tied to such a spending...
...notion that busing is the last or only hope to achieve integration is a mistake," Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, told a national forum on school desegregation on Saturday in Louisville...