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That hasn't stopped the railing against social promotion by politicians eager to burnish their credentials on public school reform. In January's State of the Union address, President Clinton drew bipartisan applause with his declaration that "all schools must end social promotion." Last month the White House proposed withholding...
The civil-liberties group wants federal legislation requiring all law-enforcement agencies to track racial data from traffic stops. Only a few police departments, including those in San Jose, Calif., and San Diego, now do so. The organization is also pushing for an end to so-called "pretext stops" as...
Now nearing the last year in his third term as head of the seven-member board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, Alan Greenspan has frequently been called the most powerful person in the nation, second only to the president.
The claim is not without some validity. As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan guides the nation--and by extension the world's--monetary policy, adjusting interest rates which change the cost of borrowing money.
In 1987, Greenspan was promoted to chairman of the Federal Reserve, where he followed the general course set by his predecessors of stabilizing the economy by reducing inflation.