Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fed Ever since the 1930s, Texas Democrat Wright Patman has been fulminating to bring the Federal Reserve System under tighter Government control. As it is, the Fed is a unique agency that, by design, is not subject to congressional appropriations or Government audit. It pays its own way largely out of interest earned on federal securities. The intention was, and is, to give the Fed a measure of independence from political control...
There are disadvantages. The typography is not quite as sharp, and, because we no longer print on our own web-fed flat-bed letterpress, our deadlines are slightly earlier. We hope to avoid the slanted columns and chopped-off letters of most offset college papers by maintaining a professional shop to do our paste-up, but if, like our Fogg friend, you've noticed some problems, please bear with...
Finally, if this kind of technical talk excites you, or even if it doesn't but you like to write, or even if you don't like to write but like free beer and pretzels, or if you want to see and touch one of the few remaining web-fed flat-bed letter presses in existence (even if it now stands idle), then come to a Crimson fall competition meeting tonight or tomorrow...
...black community. The devastation of earlier riots had been confined for the most part to black neighborhoods, and black leaders quickly pointed out the futility of internalized violence that left blacks with burned-out homes. As one big-city police chief puts it: "The ghetto resident got fed up with the kids in the street. He no longer had a neighborhood store. He was afraid to leave his home. The insurance man and laundry man refused to come to his house. Crime became intolerable." Adds Charles Bowser, executive director of the Philadelphia Urban Coalition: 'The massive confrontations haven...
Dona nobis Dona nobis We're fed up with your heavenly silence, And we only get action with violence...