Word: fed
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...obligation to these people is clear. They must be fed, cared for and protected. Further more, anyone who wants to leave Kigali must be made free to do so. As foreigners are escorted out of Rwanda by their own military forces, native residents can only look on. Where are the tent cities, the makeshift hospitals, the guarded convoys of refugees? Though these are the lamentable bastions of civil war, they do serve a humanitarian purpose. And still, the aid of the U.N. has been missing...
...wanted advice from his well-connected hosts. A month earlier, he had traveled deep into the Ural Mountains, driving over forest roads not shown on any map, following a trail of whispered rumors that a cache of gem- quality stones was up for grabs. A group of miners, fed up with laggard paychecks, had supposedly been holding back emeralds in hopes of finding a private buyer...
...balance between several constituencies. According to this line of attack, Greenspan, who fiercely resisted White House pressure for lower interest rates during the Bush Administration, has sought to make an ally of Clinton in an effort to fend off those in Congress who want to encroach on the Fed's autonomy. At the same time, he has tried to satisfy the inflation hawks inside the Fed. The result, say some critics, is that his approach to fighting inflation has been too gradual. Instead of soothing the markets, the Fed's modest one-quarter-point rate increases in February and March...
...financial turmoil fed through to home buyers last week as rising long- term rates pushed the average cost of 30-year, fixed-rate home mortgages to 8.47%, the highest level in 22 months. Just last October, the rate stood at 6.74%. At the same time, stock prices gave jittery investors another wild ride as the Dow average plunged nearly 84 points at the opening bell Monday before finishing up 38 points for the week on Friday...
...those who criticize him for having been too accommodating to the White House, Greenspan can say it has not always brought him peace. Indeed, the Fed had to spend much of last winter fending off a proposal by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen that would have created a superagency to regulate banks and thus usurp much of the Fed's supervisory authority. (The original plan is virtually dead.) Greenspan has also had to contend with some of Congress's most powerful members, who have long chafed at the secretive behavior of the Fed and in the past year have drafted legislation...