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...interest-bearing accounts. At the same time, since the flow of funds abroad cannot be precisely quantified, it makes it almost impossible for the Fed to gauge the domestic money supply and thus know with certainty how to manipulate it. "Estimates of currency held abroad are subject to considerable error," Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before Congress last August. "We are looking at this issue in considerable detail...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 25-26 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3.5% Not Sures omitted...
...number have seen the error of their ways," he said...
Several mitigating factors could prevent such a conceptual catastrophe. For one thing, the space-telescope astronomers acknowledge a significant margin of error in their calculations. It's not certain, for example, whether M100 lies right at Virgo's center or somewhere on the near or far edge. The Hubble numbers do broadly agree, however, with results announced last month by two other groups working with ground-based telescopes...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,001 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 8-11 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus 3% Not Sures omitted...