Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miranda recently would have had access to Ortega's own conversation with the high command about "strategy, doctrine, even where the war in Central America would go in case of a U.S. intervention," the defense minister said...
Treasury Secretary James Baker meets secretly with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg and Bundesbank President Karl Otto Pohl. Out of the session comes a statement pledging cooperation in stabilizing currencies. Earlier in the day, Bonn's central bank takes steps to ease interest rates...
What once seemed impossible is now just a week away. Come Nov. 5, hostilities are supposed to cease throughout Central America under a peace plan signed by five of the region's Presidents last August in Guatemala. As the date approaches, every little event is being analyzed, every statement weighed and debated...
Question: Name a new book by an editor of the Washington Post dealing with the subject of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hint: Bob Woodward's much ballyhooed Veil, an expose by the renowned Watergate reporter of the deeds and alleged confessions of the late director William J. Casey, does not count. Reward: those who come up with the correct answer can settle down to read an uncommonly informative and intriguing espionage thriller...
...moved quickly to avert further disaster. The day after the market's plunge, the new Fed chairman cut short a speaking trip to Dallas and hurried back to his ornate second-floor office in Washington's Eccles Building. He had already issued a terse announcement that the nation's central bank would "serve as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system." That was a signal that banks would have no difficulty obtaining additional credit as needed to provide for the huge losses sustained by shell-shocked brokerages. Greenspan's announcement produced an immediate decline in interest...