Word: easiest
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...affected by what he does, few under stand how he does it. To most credit users the operations of the Fed are as incomprehensible as the Eleusinian mysteries. Basically, the Fed operates on three main fronts: ¶ One of the quickest and easiest ways of tightening credit is to hike the discount rate, the interest that the Federal Reserve charges member banks for short-term loans. This tends to raise commercial interest rates and discourage marginal borrowing. In the past 17 months the FRB has raised the discount rate six times, boosted it to the highest level (3%) since...
...Desegregation generally proves easiest where the Negro population is smallest, but there are such exceptions as the integrated schools of St. Louis, where Negroes are 35% of the students-a larger percentage than that of segregated Nashville. Richmond and Dallas...
...things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them, and they try to put him out of their minds. The easiest way to do so is to insist that he keep his place. The Jew suffers from the same cause, but to a much less extent...
This position was vigorously attacked by John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, as representing a "dead on the feet" attitude in the Harvard community. He claimed that such an attitude merely seeks the easiest way out, and that the University's prestige made it "incredible to let someone else look after the undergraduate problem." He also pointed out that Harvard has expanded in the past without noticeably diminishing the quality of its education...
...also in these big cities where it is easiest to buy consumer goods. Malia, for instance, lost his pair of nail clippers in Kiev, and there was not even a pair of scissors in the biggest department store in town. And in Leningrad, he bought the last pair of gloves in the biggest department store there. Both these items were available in abundance in Moscow. Similarly, it is only the five or six largest cities in Russia which have television...