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...TIME's Board of Economists, George Shultz, former Secretary of the Treasury, and Charls Walker, a leading tax expert. The group is sometimes joined by Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1970 to 1978. The advisers acknowledge that the extra revenues generated by speedier economic growth will not offset the impact of the tax cuts, hence the sharp reductions in spending to avoid huge deficits...
...difference was youth--a startling ten freshmen on the squad, a scattering of talented sophomores and juniors and only four seniors. The result was a speedier, more aggressvie and more enthusiastic squad--a competitive and fan-pleasing, if not always victorious, combination...
...number of possibilities, but the only significant step it is believed likely to ask the board to take is to impose some kind of curb on all credit cards. It might put a lower ceiling on the debt that a consumer could run up on a card, or require speedier repayment of outstanding balances...
...Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) stares despondently into the camera, sighs melodramatically and declaims, "It's an old story--one you've probably heard before--but I never thought it would happen to me!" Navin is referring to his extremely brief career as an overnight business success--and his even speedier denouement--but the only verisimilitude the cliche holds in this epitome of trite movies seems to emanate from Martin's own soul...
...Ohio-born physicist was teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 when he and Graduate Student J. Presper Eckert Jr. began building an electronic machine to replace mechanical devices. The ENIAC (for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), a 30-ton leviathan completed in 1946, was 1,000 times speedier than any other computer. After selling their company to the Sperry Rand Corp., the two devised smaller and even quicker machines, among them the celebrated UNIVAC, developed in 1950. But Sperry lost its early lead in computers to IBM, and ENIAC'S creators, having signed away their patents early...