Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boycott's second week, tensions in Byhalia were running high. Scattered skirmishes between residents and picketers were reported, with each side blaming the other. Dudley Moore, mayor and president of the town bank, said the Byhalia whites were "getting fed up" with the continuing protest. "It's getting pretty aggravating to see people marching around," he said. "Their demands are ridiculous and all blown out of perspective...
...long last, there are hopeful signs that the Federal Reserve Board is making more money available for credit. Fed Chairman Arthur Burns last week told a conference of financial men in Washington, B.C.: "There will be no credit crunch in our country ... It would be undesirable to further intensify monetary restraint." Though he did not specifically say that there would be an easing, the money markets early in the week flashed a signal that it was already going on. The Fed allowed federal funds -uncommitted reserves that banks lend to each other-to trade...
...Fed is clearly moving toward a somewhat less restrictive money policy than before. But these moves appear to be more corrective than indicative of any major monetary shift. Since May, the growth of the nation's money supply has been at or near zero. Not even the Fed had intended it to fall so far, and the recent easing is mainly a counterbalancing measure to lift money growth back toward the 5% to 6% range that the Fed is believed to want. The buildup is expected to be slow, with no explosive growth allowed in the next several months...
...from behind the walls of San Clemente the delusion goes on. Richard Nixon is not escaping anything. He has fed his Watergate cancer. He has cast himself for his remaining years as an unrepentant criminal. He must now live a continuing coverup...
...necessary to create a three-dimensional picture, Chatfield added an extra magnetic coil to the electron microscope. The coil deflects the microscope's electron beam as it scans a target so that the microscope actually looks at the same object from two different angles. The separate images are fed into an ordinary color-TV set, which displays one view in red and the other in green; the set's blue circuitry, ordinarily needed to give the viewer a full spectrum of colors, is disconnected. When a viewer looks at the screen while wearing glasses that have...