Word: cool
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...that threat is the job, as always, of Chairman Alan Greenspan and the other governors of the Federal Reserve. As the person in control of the U.S. money supply, Greenspan has the primary responsibility for preventing a price explosion. Last week he seemed to be moving decisively to cool things down by letting interest rates rise. The so-called federal funds rate, the interest charged on overnight loans among banks and the best day-to-day indicator of Federal Reserve policy, inched up from just under 7% to about 7.25%. In response, major banks hiked the prime lending rate they...
...Vote for Me Because I'm Cool" posters and position papers that flourish around election time don't help either and produce the same wishy-washy Council year after year. Maybe next year we can see some posters that advocate censuring final clubs and support a campaign to persuade those punched not to join...
Restraining consumer prices, which rose at a 6.4% annual rate in March, will be no easy task for Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. To cool the economy, he may have to nudge interest rates upward. But doing so could drop a political bombshell on the presidential campaign of Vice President George Bush. For a loyal Republican like Greenspan, it is a dilemma with the sharpest of horns...
They will need it. Although a trailblazer when it was founded in 1972, Ms. (circ. 485,000) has never been a financial success. Advertisers have always been cool to the magazine, and "the editorial voice failed to move with the times," says Yates. In an effort "to reflect the pragmatism of women as they move into the 1990s," Yates and Summers embarked on an expensive make-over, increasing the magazine's size and introducing a less cluttered design...
Several fellow astrologers are decidedly cool toward Quigley. Marion D. March, who prepares charts for many Hollywood stars, dismisses her as a "media astrologer" because of her many TV appearances. Others in the astrological community grouse that Quigley is too aloof. But Jayj Jacobs, another San Francisco practitioner, asks, "If she's doing astrology for the Reagans, what does she need with the rest of the community...