Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fed up with your one-sided reporting about Kosovo. You ask, What were the alternatives to the bombing [KOSOVO CRISIS, May 17]? Well, only a few months back, the West could have warned Yugoslavia that it would not allow, much less condone, any further dismemberment of the country. It could have helped Yugoslavia on its path toward democracy and European integration. I suppose we are pounding Yugoslavia back to the Stone Age simply because Serb President Slobodan Milosevic allowed himself to be provoked by rebels...
...them, these traits don't mask the shortcomings in a man who got to be Fed chairman in much the way Clinton got to be president--by impressing people with his intelligence, working to make people like him and holding his finger to the wind," an April 1995 Washingtonian magazine article wrote of Greenspan...
Despite the general praise that has been lavished on his long tenure as Fed chair and the booming economy that has resulted, a renewal of Greenspan for another four-year term is not yet certain. And this is only a matter of timing...
...runs out in the middle of a presidential election. According to one scenario, Clinton may leave the decision up to Vice President Al Gore '69. And if the Democrats regain control of the Senate, they may want to have someone from within the party at the helm of the Fed...
While the Fed was set up to be an apolitical organization to control the nation's money, it far from upholds that aspect of its task--the position has become intensely political, many say. Greenspan acknowledges the political nature of his job arguing that it can be dealt with appropriately as a matter of style and personality...