Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people--including, eventually, you--are going to be in serious trouble. In the land of the IRS and thick telephone books it may seem inconceivable that a government couldn't count its people (much less provide them with some basic level of care), but we posit educated, well fed, mobilized populaces, and governments which are in touch with their people. Neither posit holds in Bangladesh...
...professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence, towards death. With an equal income distribution, Bangladesh's food needs could be thirty per cent less than they are today. Even today, however, everyone might be well fed (or at least fed adequately) if there weren't such appalling corruption. No more than a third of the grain in mercy shipments from the West reach their intended beneficiaries; like a full quarter of all foodstuffs produced in Bangladesh, the grain is secretly shipped out of Bangladesh and sold...
...more of their capital in New York City bonds and other obligations and thus would be in serious trouble if a default caused the value of those securities to plunge. The banks would probably not be wiped out: Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns has pledged that the Fed will lend generously to any bank threatened by a New York default. The banks nonetheless might have to stop making new loans and call some of their old ones, while trying to rebuild their capital, thus hurting businessmen and consumers in states as far away from New York as Missouri, Texas, Arkansas...
...ready to be fired (see diagram). To shoot the gun, Fromme would first have had to pull back the slide on top of the pistol, thus forcing a bullet from the clip up into the chamber. After the first shot was fired, the next bullet would have been automatically fed into the chamber...
...form of federal bailout. Said Treasury Secretary William Simon: We "will do nothing to help the city avoid default or lead it out of bankruptcy." Chairman Arthur Burns reiterated that the Federal Reserve Board would not guarantee the city's bonds and notes to make them marketable. The Fed argues that even if New York City defaults on all its paper, no large bank will fail...