Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that hardly kept Greenspan from having to marshal his political cunning to defend himself against the Treasury's bid for a banking superagency. He deployed a full-time lobbyist, dropped in on members of Congress to attack the plan, and dispatched senior Fed officials to spread the word among important bankers that the Treasury plan was ill-advised. Among other things, the emissaries reminded bankers that the Fed had handed out loans to keep floundering financial institutions afloat in the late 1980s. And the banks needed no reminders that the Fed can deny them permission for acquisitions and ( mergers. Meanwhile...
...Winning Bid...
...bid for calm yesterday, officialsemphasized that they expect the three openpositions--provost, vice president for finance andvice president for government, community andpublic affairs--to be filled within the next fewmonths...
Davis, who previously lost her bid for president of the council and refused a position on the reevaluation committee, is well-known for her antagonistic relationship toward the council. Nonetheless, Davis played by the rules and easily gathered more than 1,100 signatures for a petition which would require five questions to be brought before the students in a binding referendum on April...
Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66 plans to stress crime, welfare and the state economy in his bid for re-election this year...