Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, delighted to put the blame squarely on Athens, leaked a blizzard of inspired "inside information" to prove that all the NATO powers, and Spaak himself, were fed up with the Greeks...
...that it is a philosophy of human life, whereas a lot of modern philosophy doesn't have anything to do with anything anybody is interested in. There are uncountable 'problems' in philosophy, but some questions we don't care to know the answer to. Everybody is just about fed up with the traditional problems brought up by Hume, for instance...
...Fed nonetheless showed concern about inflation by pointing a finger at credit as the great danger. "Selective"' consumer credit curbs might have to be imposed, warned Fed Vice Chairman C. Canby Balderston in Manhattan, if auto and mortgage credit are "radically" loosened. Balderston placed part of the blame for the recession on the $5.5 billion credit expansion in 1955, which, he said, caused companies to overexpand. He said that the danger of another credit burst "might create a widespread public demand for consumer credit controls as an alternative to enhanced cyclical fluctuations or to an increased degree of general...
Many a businessman felt that what really should worry the Fed is that credit may be getting too tight too soon. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia last week found that the nation's banking system is considerably less liquid now than it was at the start of the 1955-57 upsurge; thus banks have less money for loans. The effects of tighter money are already appearing in housing: the Federal Housing Administration reported that hundreds are starting to trim their plans for houses...
...paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary tries to reason with him. "You're fed up with men, so you've gone over to the animals . . . But my friend, something much bigger [than elephants] is threatened with extinction." In his crazy way, the dentist knows this too. Man, he rants, is eliminating "all that is beautiful . . . Soon there will be nothing left...