Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away from the executive branch and place more responsibility in the hands of local government, like labor unions, grass-roots organizations, community groups. But to do that, he must redefine the military's role, separating the army from the police and the local section chiefs who established a draconian choke hold on rural Haiti...
...Washington doesn't louse it up, that is. What most worried some members of TIME's panel were indications that the Federal Reserve Board, which has already raised interest rates five times this year to forestall inflation, would choke off the expansion by boosting rates more than today's benevolent conditions demand. "If the Fed stays true to historical form, it will continue tightening on and off until we get ourselves into a recession," said David Levy, director of forecasting at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute...
...million pacifiers recalled for annoying potential to choke...
...average fee of 3.2% per purchase (as compared with 2% for Visa and MasterCard). A chastened Amex has now chopped its vendor fee to 2.8%, and the ploy seems to be working. Since 1992, the company has moved boldly into / establishments regarded by consumers as plastic-essential, including -- choke on this, yuppie scum! -- Sears and K Mart. This year alone, AmEx expects to sign more than 200,000 new businesses...
...embroil the quarrelsome community of economists, raising fears that the victory could lead to a shortage of funds that will slow growth in the U.S. and abroad. With so many countries hungry for capital, say these experts, the demand will drive interest rates up. The increases in turn could choke off investments for new homes, plants and machinery. "This is the first time since the outbreak of World War I that every nation on this planet has a capitalist economic system or a market- oriented economy either in place or about to happen," says David Hale, a senior economist...