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...multiple of the square root of minus...
...elected to office," notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct advantage. This would seem to indicate that the tradition of the Adamses, Elihu Root and Henry Stimson is perhaps even greater today...
...FROM ORDERING. When a child cries in the unfamiliar night, a mother's first impulse is to reassure the child that "everything is all right." Unless the statement is a lie, says Berger, at its root it expresses humanity's basic confidence in a reality that transcends the natural, often cruel world - "a universe that is ultimately in order and ultimately trust worthy...
...high. The board later dropped the rate to 5¼% , but last week, declaring a new assault on inflation, it lifted the rate again to 5½%. Whether the rise will have any rapid effect is debatable. The causes of inflation are deep, and it will take time to root them...
...move would almost certainly have prompted Congress to cut back some of his favorite spending programs. Later, faced with soaring federal deficits, Johnson changed his mind and urged a tax increase. But Congress dallied for 18 months-and thus lost an opportunity to halt inflation before it took deep root...