1.   Another critical voice was offered by John Kenneth Galbraith, an ally of President John F. Kennedy and a liberal economist and economic historian.

2.   A generally liberal economist, Sinai did a study of the capital gains tax that the Bush administration used in its campaign for tax relief.

3.   A noisy coalition of labor unions, environmentalists, liberal economists and isolationist Republicans remain opposed to Nafta.

4.   After two decades as an outspoken liberal economist, Blinder faces an especially hard choice.

5.   Curiously, this is a point on which the views of conservatives like Heckman converge with those of liberal economists.

6.   David Ellwood, a liberal economist who does worry about inequality, said this may be just the beginning of a trend toward greater inequality.

7.   Even some liberal economists say a cap would be hard to carry out and might anger many shareholders.

8.   Grigori Yavlinsky, the liberal economist and presidential candidate, favors montages of postcards of real people writing him kind words of hope and encouragement.

9.   Henry Aaron, a liberal economist at the Brookings Institution, said the pension tax is a case of misguided populism.

10.   His naming last week of Andrei Illarianov, a liberal economist, as his chief economic adviser was seen as support for continued economic reform in Russia.