Word: fed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours after midnight, Washington time, financial markets opened in Europe. The Fed and the Japanese central bank began buying yen. As traders scrambled to adjust, the yen jumped 5.2% for the day. In Japan an upbeat Hashimoto pledged "every effort" to restore the country's debt-burdened banking sector and "open and deregulate its markets...
...herpes? Young girls have lip-synched often enough to Alanis Morissette's big hit of a couple of years ago, You Oughta Know, to have found the sex nestled in the lyric. But it's more than just movies and television and news. Adolescent curiosity about sex is fed by a pandemic openness about it--in the schoolyard, on the bus, at home when no adult is watching. Just eavesdrop at the mall one afternoon, and you'll hear enough pubescent sexcapades to pen the next few episodes of Dawson's Creek, the most explicit show on teen sexuality...
...High praise indeed, especially from a sourpuss like the Fed chairman. So why on earth did the Dow slip 78 points in Wednesday's session -- after gaining almost 250 points over the past four -- as if CNBC had rerun the "irrational exuberance" speech instead? "We're in between earnings seasons right now, and no one expects the Fed to raise interest rates anyway," says Fortune writer Nelson Schwartz. "All that is translating to a lethargy in the markets -- volume has been weak, even when the Dow goes up. People need a new reason to get excited about stocks; Greenspan just...
...spires of Princeton were visible, with here and there a lateburning light--and suddenly out of the clear darkness the sound of bells. As an endless dream it went on; the spirit of the past brooding over a new generation, the chosen youth from the muddled, unchastened world, still fed romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen and poets. Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights, destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride...
...dabbled lucratively in private enterprise through his family. The Habibie clan controls two large conglomerates--the Timsco Group, named after his younger brother Timmy, and the Repindo Panca Group, headed by his second son Tareq Kamal Habibie. Many of the more than 66 companies in these two groups have fed off contracts from the state enterprises Habibie oversaw as Technology Minister, says sociologist George Aditjondro of the University of Newcastle in Australia. That does not bode well for a clean government under a Habibie presidency. "The Habibie-family companies are so deeply involved with the Suharto-family companies," says Aditjondro...