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...Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered up to traders what they had been counting on: he raised short-term interest rates on Tuesday by the largest amount since 1981. His goal was to restrain the economy and forestall inflation. If traders are convinced that inflation looms, they might dump bonds and thereby drive up the cost of the long-term loans that have financed the business recovery...
...townspeople welcomed the national press with coffee and doughnuts and open homes, hoping that all the attention might help find the kids quickly. Once the story went national, police expected the thief to dump the car -- and the children -- in a hospital parking lot, or at a convenience store, or a shopping mall. But still there was no sign. And everywhere parents suffered, as the temperature fell below freezing two nights of the first five...
...wonder, maybe in the selection process these companies should just dump all those who bother asking inane questions and interview those who get something tangible out of the evening--surely that's the kind of thinking a consulting firm is looking...
...President's discomforts, however fleeting, reflect some of the more basic needs his government will have to address in its first few months in power. Schools languish in disrepair. Garbage is piled high around the capital, and the municipal dump is an unsightly waterfront horror that breeds disease. Roads are barely navigable; in some places, the potholes have grown so large and deep that they are known in Haitian Creole as tonmbo, or tombs. At midweek, gasoline had still not made it to the nation's pumps, and the stockpiled supplies of street dealers were dwindling. It was a characteristically...
Last spring, union officials charged the club with using strong-arm tactics against the strikers--including having workers dump water on the picketing employees...