Word: centrally
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...Mark Willes, 38, is the youngest of the Federal Reserve's twelve regional bank presidents. He is also the most independent and outspoken. As chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which oversees the North Central states, Willes has frequently been at odds with the other Fed regional presidents and the Fed's former chairman G. William Miller. A Utah-born Mormon who attended Columbia University, Willes argues that forecasts about the impact of new economic policies are so imprecise that the Fed should resist trying to make constant short-term adjustments by changing the money supply. Instead...
...last April to become mayor of the city where she had been born and raised. A protégée of late Mayor Richard Daley, Byrne had spent ten years as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales and served one year as co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially for the blacks and latinos who supported her. Her tough stand in suspending city supervisors who fail to show up for work has pleased taxpayers...
...Masatepe (pop. 8,000); his parents were loyal members of the pro-Somoza Liberal Party. Ramírez was first exposed to opposition politics as a law student at the National University of Nicaragua in the early 1960s. After graduating, he took an administrative job at the Council of Central American Universities in Costa Rica and seemed to lose contact with the revolutionary movement. He did postgraduate work at the University of Kansas, where he learned English, and taught in West Germany before returning in 1974 to Costa Rica, where he joined the struggle to topple Somoza...
Among Ramírez's books are a novel about a dictatorship in Central America called Do I Make You Afraid of Blood? and a biography of Augusto César Sandino. But Ramírez did not join the guerrillas who take their name from that Nicaraguan nationalist, who was slain in 1934 on the orders of the founder of the Somoza dynasty. Instead, with several priests, academics and businessmen, he founded the Group of Twelve, which sought to link the Sandinistas with less radical elements in the opposition to Tacho's government. Last year...
...paintings since 1973, that hunger is palpable, and it takes nothing for granted. "To paint from life at this point of time," he argues, "demands both the transgression and the inclusion of doubt." Transgression, because any effort to depict something is a shot at certainty; inclusion, because the central paradox of realism is that representation can never be completed. There is always a level of detail below which paint cannot go. What makes the realist painting is not complete illusion, but intensity; and there is no in tensity without rules, limits and artifice...