Word: steins
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...economy close to or perhaps at the top of the list. But since President Nixon announced his New Economic Policy last August, Democratic candidates generally have found it difficult to mount an effective attack. Last week the chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, Herbert Stein, went so far as to declare that "at the moment there is no issue" in the economy. He added: 'There is no serious, coherent policy that is an alternative to the one the Administration has initiated." That convenient vacuum could be filled well before November. But for the time being, Stein...
...ASSASSINS by ELIA KAZAN 311 pages. Stein...
...make the existential leap to Required Reading? I was writing a mad letter, not a petition. How did it acquire so many signers? I mean not just kids, but critics. Because I think they felt, as I did, that uncertainty was the American state of mind. Old Gertrude Stein on her deathbed sighed, "What is the answer?" And topped it with "What is the question?" You could go to literary distinction with that kind of exit line, and in a sense, that is where Salinger took...
...rightly determined that his budget provide generous fuel supplies for an economy that finally seems to be producing more heat. There is more growth and less inflation than in a long time. The fourth-quarter G.N.P. in 1971 rose at the exceptionally brisk annual rate of 6.1%. Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, strongly urged the President to keep a heavy foot on the gas pedal for the next six months, and the deficit be damned. Nixon clearly agreed...
...well show a "bulge" in December, the first full month after the freeze was over. They were right. For wholesale prices, the increase turned out to be .7%-a sharp rise but still less than the one that "I had been prepared to defend," said Chief Presidential Economist Herbert Stein. When the consumer price index for December was released last week, Stein still felt comfortable. The nation's basic cost-of-living measure rose .4%. Though high for a month, it showed that inflationary pressure pent up during the freeze was less than expected. Moreover the rise in consumer...