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...Indeed, the Fed had to spend much of last winter fending off a proposal by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen that would have created a superagency to regulate banks and thus usurp much of the Fed's supervisory authority. (The original plan is virtually dead.) Greenspan has also had to contend with some of Congress's most powerful members, who have long chafed at the secretive behavior of the Fed and in the past year have drafted legislation that would require the central bank to release promptly the transcripts of its rate-setting meetings...
...Crimson must also contend with the offensive minded Tiger midfielder Scott Reinhardt and senior attacker Scott Conklin, who has found and goal-scoring touch recently in several multi-goal games...
...excitement began to diminish as I realized that I had more than classes to contend with. This feeling of comfort and pride is exactly what was stifled in my parents and others' parents in the 1950s and 60s when Blacks were attacked for simply walking along the street or for trying to buy a sandwich in a deli. While it is true that the physical circumstances under which we lived a few decades ago differ from now, the sentiments of both Blacks and whites...
...confused by the whole episode with William--surely his death was more than just a stall tactic? Even her jokes are starting to falter ("Berth and birth--she attempted to wrangle the words into a suitable pun, but nothing come.") And now Fisher has given us another invalid to contend with, the unsympathetic, addled Grandpa...
...same time, it possesses a backdoor two keys"-held by two separate government agencies-that will allow the government to decode any data with appropriate warrants. Administration officials contend that the government must have free reign to be able to decode any criminal activity or suspected foreign espionage...