Word: fed
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...Washington Post two months ago offering up to $1 million to any woman who could prove an affair with a high government official. Several respondents reportedly named Livingston, and suddenly Hustler--whose best-known editorial feature until now was a cover photo of a woman being fed into a meat grinder--was setting the agenda in the capital...
Pediatricians at Johns Hopkins are studying a different bug, the Bb-12 strain of Bifidobacterium, which was discovered by researchers at CHR Hansen Biosystems. Like L-GG, Bb-12 stimulates the immune system. For reasons that are not clear, infants who are breast-fed have large amounts of bifidobacteria in their intestines. They also have fewer intestinal upsets. Dr. Jose Saavedra and colleagues at Hopkins have shown that Bb-12 prevents several types of diarrhea, including that caused by rotavirus, in hospitalized infants as young as four months. It has also been used to cure diarrhea in children...
...anyway) string of three straight interest-rate cuts, the Federal Reserve took an expected pass on Tuesday, courtesy of the American consumer. Emboldened by their ever-fattening stock portfolios, consumers have not only carried their economy through a tenuous autumn, they have actually set off some alarms in the Fed's head about an old foe: inflation...
...worry about that until the Fed's next FOMC board meeting in January. For now, Greenspan rates a gushy Christmas card for helping the rest of the world get through an economic crisis that, so far, Americans have only read about. Around the world, U.S. rate cuts provided the world with cheaper dollars to borrow, keeping domestic currencies afloat all over Asia. As we head into the holidays, the blaze is out, at least for now. And Greenspan the fireman is back on thermostat duty...
Some of his aides had something else in mind. They had been listening all week long to the Republican moderates whose votes could save the President from the impeachment that now looks likely to come this week. By Friday, Republican brokers had even fed them some actual lines for him to read, the very script that they thought just might save him--and them--from months of hell. The fence sitters weren't looking for an apology; they were looking for an admission. Say you lied, and we'll let you go free...