Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five months after David was born, Jo took care of him. Then, Teddy charges, she began to put ground glass and soap in the child's formula, stepped on his fingers and fed him overdoses of medicine. "They asked me about all of those things, and I finally admitted to having done them," says Jo. "Somebody had to be the crazy one in a group like that. The role was chosen for me, and I accepted it. The family attracts emotionally sick people...
...moment, the Treasury is maintaining special surveillance on more than 70 banks whose capital reserves are particularly low in relation to their loans. The Fed has sent out unmistakable signals that it wants banks to slow their rush to diversify. Last year the Fed rejected bids by* four-of the nation's ten largest banks to make acquisitions, citing various reasons including weak capital positions...
...total information-in this case, a picture of a star-actually emerge. To analyze and combine the specks, the astronomers used a high-speed scanning beam that detected minute differences of light intensity as it swept each speck. The data from each of the 40 plates were then fed into a computer, which reassembled them into a single stellar image, like an artist piecing together a mosaic...
Democrats: A recommendation that the Federal Reserve Board expand the money supply by 6% or more in order to make more credit available and quickly bring down borrowing costs. (The rate grew by 4% in the past quarter.) The proposal also calls for the Fed to prod banks to allocate credit to housing, farming and electric-power producers, and away from "speculative and inflationary uses...
...Frankly, I was fed up with this place," he says, half-smiling. "I had lost interest in going back to school--I didn't see what it was doing for me. And there were a lot of things going on back home at that time--the new law had been passed giving us the right to have tribal elections. I felt cut off from all that, so I went back home...