Word: tell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, perhaps you could tell us just what it is about the past administration that you've objected...
Harvard's coaching staff is pleased with Farneti's performance so far this year-Yovicsin called him the best individual player Harvard has, and Gary has special praise for linebacking coach Ralph Jelic. "He's a great student of the game and can tell you what to expect from the other team. "And he's been right every time. He's full of enthusiasm and is young enough to sympathize with the problems of young guys-whether the problems have anything to do with football...
...tell you who's in trouble-Mahoney. I just saw The Professor [incumbent Thomas H. D. Mahoney is an M.I.T. professor] and I told him, You'd better watch out, there's not going to be any Crane surplus to go around this year...
Bowles and MacEwan tell us also, however, that per capita income "only has meaning in the context of a market economy." Defective as data on per capita income must be for a less developed economy. Bowles and MacEwan cannot really be urging here what they seem to be: that that index not be compiled and its increase not be sought. Moreover, as the primers teach, if income equality is stressed very much, incentives and bence output per capita may suffer. Just what is the trade off and where should a balance be struck between these two desiderata? These regrettably...
Bowles and MacEwan also tell us that the "human costs of rapid economic growth... the fracture of a community, for example-are seldom considered." Few Western economists need to be told of the "human costs of rapid economic growth," though more familiar examples are urban congestion and pollution, and many will join in regretting that such costs are not given more weight in actual development programs...