Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio. By quitting, Mikhail-Ashrawi has become a hero to a public fed up with the malfeasance rampant in Arafat?s administration. Her office and home have been deluged with phone calls from well wishers. ?They say, ?You?re the only man in the Cabinet,?? reports Mikhail-Ashrawi, who was in fact one of only two women. A source close to Arafat confirms...
...official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said she died after choking on food, but Oliva plans to tell the committee that this makes no sense: Espinoza was supposed to be fed through a tube. All three nursing homes deny any wrongdoing...
...Certainly the slowdown, caused in great part by the GM strike, should spare the Fed any worries about inflation or having to raise interest rates. But with the July effects of the just-settled strike counting toward next quarter, experts are predicting more of the same for July-September. Is it time to start crying recession? Baumohl doubts it. "So many other indicators, such as consumer spending and new equipment purchasing, are still strong. There isn't much out there that's alarming." If a recession does come, it will come unannounced...
...marshy, bug-infested, tropical jungles of East Africa, is designed to generate data for her senior thesis. When I left Harvard at the end of the school year, she was excitedly packing and talked animatedly about the chance to observe--up close and in person--how these primates fed, traveled and organized themselves. Many people asked if I was going to some place as exotic. Not exactly...
...There's really no sign that the economy will overheat soon," says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. "But Greenspan has to maintain his role as captain of the economy. If he admits that the economy is on autopilot -- which it is right now -- the Fed loses its relevance." Usually such vocal vigilance from the Fed chairman portends a hike in interest rates. But Baumohl says Greenspan still hopes that a "soft landing" -- in which the U.S. economy, dulled by Asia's recession, "sort of taps its brakes and cools off on its own" -- will allow him to do nothing...