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...Ronald Reagan. Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85, by Robert Gildea, Yale University Press £25, 496 pages...
...If it were taken more seriously, Jimmy Carter would be credited for having seeded the Soviet Union’s demise and Ronald Reagan would not have been canonised as a modern saint....
...The writer is editor-in-chief of Money Week It is hard not to feel sorry for Arthur Burns, chair of the US Federal Reserve, when you look back at the unpleasant inflationary years of the 1970s....
...“There’s going to be a whole lot of frustrated and upset railway workers,” said Arthur Wheaton, professor of labour studies at Cornell University....
...John Wilson conducts showpiece performances of Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Lennox Berkeley’s Serenade for Strings and Arthur Bliss’s Music for Strings that are top of the class...
...Ronald Reagan In the summer of 1983, Ronald Reagan was under heavy pressure to replace Volcker at the helm of the Fed....
...The beneficiary, Republican Ronald Reagan, tried unsuccessfully to get Volcker to cut rates in the build-up to his 1984 re-election....
...“Fusion is probably the greatest technical challenge humanity has ever taken on,” says Arthur Turrell, whose book The Star Builders charts the decades-long effort by engineers, physicists and mathematicians...
...On November 25, I board a plane heading for Nashville, Tennessee, for an audience with Arthur Laffer, the sprightly octogenarian economist who claims credit for President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts....
...In 1955 he was a senior staff economist for the president’s Council of Economic Advisers under Arthur Burns and he was frequently consulted on industrial disputes....
...Volcker’s predecessor Arthur Burns, on the other hand, was pressed by Richard Nixon to cut rates ahead of the 1972 election — and did....
...Born in 1969, Meacham campaigned for Ronald Reagan as a 10-year old, but by his early twenties, having worked as a journalist, he had decided that neither party had “a monopoly on either virtue of wisdom...
...Ronald Reagan needed legal cover for secret operations in Central America....
...Charles Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon’s 1870 original underwent various modifications by Lev Ivanov and Enrico Cecchetti and the result is a happy mix of hearty ensembles, slapstick pantomime and imperial...
...Tony McCarroll, Paul “Guigsy” McGuigan and Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs were the original members of which band, along with two brothers?...
..., May 6 1976; Daniel Inouye, US senator (Hawaii), New York, July 14 1976; Andrew Young, US congressman (Georgia), New York, July 15 1976; Walter Annenberg, publisher, Radnor, Pennsylvania, May 10 1976; Arthur...
...Central elements of the new dispensation such as privatisation, the defeat of Arthur Scargill’s miners’ union and the end of football hooligans were still to come....
...(Vulture) The lives of Ronald Pinn. This tale has haunted me since it came out in 2015....
...A stereoscope through which one can study Arthur Thomson’s stereographic Anatomy of the Human Eye, published in 1912....
...US presidents have form in pressing central bank chiefs to hold down rates — George H W Bush and Alan Greenspan, Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker, Lyndon Johnson and William McChesney Martin....
...Mr Malpass had just ended two stints in Washington working for the Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush administrations, and Mr Kudlow — then chief economist at Bear — wanted him on board to cover global economic...
...Laffer is associated with the “trickle down” theory of tax cuts popularised by Ronald Reagan. He is back in that mode today. It is as though America’s wealthy divide into two camps....
...Not once during the heated 1980 presidential campaign, with Ronald Reagan railing against double-digit interest rates, did Mr Carter blame Mr Volcker....
...Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm, appointed Ronald Cordes as a senior adviser. Cordes was co-founder and chief executive of AssetMark....
...More likely, Trump is returning to the days of Richard Nixon, who intimidated his Fed chair, Arthur Burns, into a cycle of interest rate loosening in the lead up to the 1972 presidential election....
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