Word: bashing
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Among those abstaining was council representative John F. Bash, who said he could not vote for or against the bill without hearing arguments in favor of oil expansion...
...tough throws a party. Last week, as his government expelled two foreign journalists, President Robert Mugabe faced a new wave of international censure. His country bankrupt, its judiciary in tatters and the press and the opposition under increasing harassment, Mugabe threw himself a three-day 77th-birthday bash at Victoria Falls...
...first concentration at the University to turn in their theses, the History and Literature department has a long-standing tradition of celebrating with a "champagne bash...
...line fast enough to complain about Alan Greenspan these days. Want to bash his up-down decisions on interest rates on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times? Take a number, and wait behind the bankers and professors. Eager to trash his endorsement of tax cuts? Expect to get his answering machine. He's on the other line talking to his old friend Robert Rubin, who put through an emergency call to Greenspan two weeks ago to try to muzzle the Fed chief's pro-slice stance...
...Chairman applying Taylor rules would be harder to bash, since he'd just be following the formula. But that would also limit the good he could do. Taylor rules, many economists say, don't work because they are reactive. They don't move rates until inflation picks up. It's like not hitting your brakes until you touch the other guy's bumper. Greenspan's rate cut in August 1998 probably saved the world from financial meltdown. Taylor's rules would have precluded the move. It's seductive to think we could build a Greenspan box, a computer...