Word: confirms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago, the Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's policy-making group, voted, in effect, to confirm that it was temporarily loosening up on tight-money policy so that the economy could begin growing more rapidly. Said one official somberly: "We could not afford to wait another five or six weeks." Although he insisted that this was only a minor technical change with "zero policy significance," Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker confirmed the shift during a weekend meeting of business leaders in Hot Springs...
Naval officials here expressed skepticism over Flintstong's story, but refused to confirm or deny the possibility that the alien submarine might have been manned by French Canadian rather than Soviets, as had previously been assumed. "Everyone's under suspicious," commented Capt. Sven Jorgansfut...
UPenn President Sheldon Hackney and Provost Thomas Ehrlich refused to comment on the terms of the agreement and would neither confirm nor deny that a monetary settlement had been made...
...election was then scheduled, and all seemed set for a replay of March 26, 1981. That is, until the union recently decided to withdraw its petition for the employee vote (at press time, an NLRB spokesman said he could not confirm that the election was officially off until the petition withdrawal was reviewed...
...stationed in what was known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), faced the considerably weaker NATO forces ... It was in the GDR that the Warsaw Pact was even now staging maneuvers of impressive size, so large as to arouse at first strong suspicion in the West, and then to confirm, that this was really mobilization .. . The maneuvers had been notified to other powers ... Some smaller though still considerable maneuvers of the Southern Group of Soviet Forces in Hungary had not. It was from these that one airborne and two motor rifle divisions had moved into Yugoslavia...