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...then there's the Fed, for who a virtual tax on consumers and businesses means only one thing - higher prices, without higher profits or faster growth. High energy costs will force Alan Greenspan to step in with interest-rate hikes much sooner than he would like in order to control prices and avoid that 70s bogeyman, stagflation. The very thing that is helping the Middle East push those energy prices up - the nascent U.S. and global economic recovery - could be those price hikes' first victim...
...respect Professor Ogletree’s right to bring this issue to the forefront,” said Alan J. Stone, vice president for government, community and public affairs. “We understand this is an important issue but at the moment there is no way for us to evaluate the charges because there has not been a formal accusation...
...We’ve been meeting with councilpeople, we’ve been talking to community groups, we’ve done mailings of materials to councilpeople and neighbors,” said Vice President for Community, Government and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone...
...Israeli government must brandish a stick as well as extend a carrot. Suicide bombings must be punished with a disproportionate, but predetermined, military response. As Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has proposed, the Israeli Defense Forces should release a list of targets that will be destroyed in response to each terrorist attack. That way Palestinian terrorists will know exactly who among their own people they harm when they commit murder so they can properly weigh their own perceived costs and benefits...
...asking again - can they keep it up? Because now that Alan Greenspan and every other economist has pronounced the economy to be pulling out of its whatever-it-was and headed back into boom times, the kind of recovery we get in 2002 - a fast-and-furious V-shape, a slow and grudging L, or worst of all, a double-dip W - depends on how much consumers can improve on their 2001 performance. And the worry is that after spending to beat the terrorists, shoppers have left themselves a very tough act to follow...