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...engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal of zero inflation. Today those jeers have melted to mild sarcasm. ALL HAIL SAINT ALAN, read buttons distributed by Bert Ely, an economic consultant who contends Greenspan is getting undeserved credit for the happy state of the U.S. economy. But to admirers, Greenspan is a monetary wizard. Says economist Allen Sinai: "The Greenspan Fed is the all-time champion in American history...
...Wonderful Life (1951). Odds are you'll miss the ONE time Ted Turner lets it out of the box, so rise up and rent. Trivia note: Frank Faylen and Ward Bond play the cabby and the cop (or is it the cop and the cabby?). Their names? Ernie and Bert. Jim Henson was not sued...
...overwhelming. I don't like stuff on the infrastructure," Bert Brahm said...
...three telecom giants. Lee stressed last week that he would welcome BT, which has held a 20% stake in MCI since 1993, in a combined GTE and MCI. "We share the global vision of our industry that brought MCI and British Telecom together," Lee noted in a "Dear Bert" letter to Roberts...
This year's body count has already surpassed last year's total of 198, but not even the highway patrol pins the entire difference on m.p.h. Even so, common sense tells you speed kills, says Major Bert Obert of the Montana Highway Patrol. Especially when some people are going 110 and others 55. Montana troopers say they've clocked drivers at up to 150 m.p.h. It was insulting enough for troopers before 1996, when the speed limit was 65 and the fine was $5, payable on the spot. Drivers kept fives tucked in their visor, but at least they slowed...