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...instance, Forbes said he believes the Federal Reserve Board is too eager to raise interest rates to curb inflation, even if the economy is growing at a rate as small as 2.8 percent...
...than average. I am, after all, the former co-editor of a New York journal called Beautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking. You don't get that kind of position if you need eight turns to back into a space and still end up far enough away from the curb to permit motorcycle parking on your right...
...letter dated April 10, Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox, Jr. '59 implored council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97 to curb council members' increasingly frequent statements during meetings...
...normally worn, you may have surmised that he'd somehow lost his tie on the way over. As this actor had made his way past the cheering crowds toward Oprah Winfrey's microphone, you guessed, a particularly impressionable fan swooned at the sight of him, cut herself on the curb and was saved from bleeding to death only by his quick action in whipping off his bow tie and pressing it into service as a tourniquet...
...Texas became the latest state to file suit against the tobacco industry in order to reclaim Medicaid costs. The state is seeking $4 billion, the estimated total expense to Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders R.J. Reynolds...