Word: extents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pain, and the animals' dependence on humans (as a result of circumstances created by humans), for example--animals may indeed be considered equivalent to humans. Yet the relative significance of the lives of different species of animals need not be the central question; rather, one must question the extent to which this significance can, has been, and continues to be manipulated to justify or legitimize the unethical treatment of animals. Unfortunately, Sharfstein disregards this central question...
...think that's quite fair. Interest rates went up much further than I would have thought. But when the Federal Reserve System as a whole got the bit in their teeth, they wanted to carry out the monetarist doctrine to its fullest extent. We got pushed into an even more hands-off stance than I personally would have suggested in the beginning. But we really didn't go out of our way to try to moderate the rise in rates, because everybody got all caught up with this feeling that we wanted to demonstrate credibility and have some favorable effects...
...along and says, look, goddammit, you've got to act. And it's on your desk and that's it. Then the adrenaline begins running. You're sitting there in the Federal Reserve where you're supposed to do things that aren't all that popular. And to the extent that you have an aura, if that's the right word, of professionalism, it makes it all that easier...
...century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools and pottery fragments probably imported from Sardinia around 3000 B.C. Nicosia says the findings have forced experts to rethink old Florence: "We expected to discover the Roman and the medieval cities, but not to this extent. We also didn't know the city was so old, going as far back as the Bronze...
...great extent, the long-term fate of the economy is up to the White House and Congress, while the short-term management rests in Alan Greenspan's hands. All three will have to tinker carefully and deliberately with the creaky recovery if they hope to get many more miles from it. The economy may have survived a stock-market crash in '87, but its ability to handle the tight corners and potholes of '89 and '90 cannot be taken for granted...