Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally has happened. Pedestrians in Harvard Square are fed up and fighting back at the intersection of John F. Kennedy Street and Massachusetts Avenue...
Many have become fed up with the lack of organ donors in this country and want to institute changes to increase their number. Up to now, education has been the preferred method of increasing donations in the United States. Although many Americans understand the need for organ donors, they have not acted according to those beliefs...
...example, stories on June 27 reported that the Dow was off 34.59 points. The Journal led off its analysis with the following: "Hopes are fading that the Fed will cut short-term rates." The Times chose to focus on the slump in technology issues and the fact that Disney's Pocahontas was not raking in the expected revenues. Then on June 28, USA Today had stocks falling on "trade-war fears," but in the Times, they fell as "market players reacted to conflicting reports on the economy and worried about the direction of interest rates...
...sell-off in technology stocks, trading hit the Nasdaq composite index proportionately harder, pushing it down 38 points. Today's drop followed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's upbeat economic report to Congress this morning. "Jittery investors interpreted that to mean no more interest rate cuts by the Fed," explainedTIME's John Greenwald, "and that's not what they wanted to hear." Though Greenspan just last month expressed doubt in the economy's strength, today he called the outlook "encouraging, despite the inevitable risks." Noting positive trends in various economic indicators, the central banker also cited diminishing financial turmoil...
...over, frail woman shuffling behind a walker has to stir the thought, What would her life be like had she been on estrogen the past 20-plus years? RICKI POLLYCOVE, M.D. San Francisco A MAJOR DISSERVICE HAS BEEN DONE TO the women of this country. The article on estrogen fed the cancer fear in women. Your report was sensationalistic. HALINA WICZYK, M.D. Springfield, Massachusetts...