Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIGHT MONEY. Excessively fast growth of the nation's money supply has been an important cause of inflation. The Federal Reserve has created so much money partly to cover budget deficits, partly to meet the credit demands of a growing and inflationary economy. Throughout 1978 the Fed kept letting interest rates rise to discourage borrowing; banks raised the prime rate 14 times, by a total of almost 4 points, to 11.5%. Loan demand stayed high, however, and money supply kept bounding up; in September it rose at an annual rate of 15.8%. But the cumulative effect of the interest...
...somewhat artificial-speaking with broad accents, for example, or constantly using endearments like 'darling.' Bergerac could not be more genuine: he is warm and friendly without being mushy, and he possesses a quick, dry sense of humor. I especially enjoyed watching him on his farm as he fed lettuce to his goat Dudley and played with his two baby lambs. Bergerac is as comfortable in the woods as in his Fifth Avenue office...
...Federal Reserve Board's monetary policy is turning tighter in an effort to restrain credit and the money supply. To signal its intentions, the board controls the interest rate for Fed funds, which are reserves that banks lend each other. That rate has risen to a high 10%. In addition, the nation's basic money supply, or M.I, dropped $1.9 billion to $359.5 billion during the week ending...
...both modern drama and the current American theatrical scene. His writings, diverse as they are, display a common vision: the theater is not, and never has been isolated from day-to-day human existence and the problems of any given society--it is created out of those problems and fed by the artist's desire for truth and dissatisfaction with the present order of things...
Hughes sent the freshman streaking into the Bowdoin zone, and the high school All-American drew the lone defender and fed the puck to George, who deked right and snapped a wrister into the vacated side of the goal...