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...College had its flaws, it fulfilled the admissions office promises of a comfortable and stimulating environment like none I had experienced before. My fellow students don't always do the most intelligent things, but they are all intelligent. Everyone has something interesting to say. People are excited by ideas. Dissent and disagreement are welcome. And Harvard has taken care of me: housing, food, social events, health services, advice, my first job, even toilet paper--I credit Harvard with putting all of these at my fingertips...
...stubbornly strong growth convinced Robert McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, that larger rate increases may be appropriate this year. McTeer, whose voting term expired last December, had been the only panelist to dissent from Fed tightening in 1999. "I believed, unlike some others, that productivity gains were keeping inflation sufficiently in check," McTeer says. "But as we moved into 2000, the signals from the economy were fairly clear cut. There was little question in anyone's mind that inflationary pressures were building...
...students of the Fed see any sign of dissent from the doves. "In the old days," says economist Kevin Flanagan of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, "there was a debate over who was an influential hawk and who an influential dove." But today, Flanagan notes, any policy disagreements tend to vanish into Greenspan's carefully nurtured consensus. Concurs Fed governor Meyer, who has a reputation as a hawk's hawk on inflation: "Many members will voice some disagreement with the chairman's view in the go-rounds. But many of those will vote with the chairman...
...proposal to require contracting firms to provide health insurance proved the most contentious issue, provoking a letter of dissent from two of the eight committee members...
Rudenstine acknowledged the dissent in his response to the committee, noting that "in the eyes of some, the recommendations go too far," but pledged to support them regardless...