Word: feds
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...traitor. While lobbying for a seat on the Budget Committee in 1981, Gramm assured party leaders that he would support a Democratic budget plan. Four months later, he not only co-sponsored the President's budget plan against the committee alternative but, charged the Democrats, also fed reports on confidential Democratic strategy sessions to David Stockman, Reagan's Director of the Office of Management and Budget. "In any army," commented one Democratic House leader, "he'd have been shot at sunrise...
News of the violence has hurt Mugabe's efforts to attract foreign investments. Twice in the past month, guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Marxist government of neighboring Mozambique blew up a pipeline that fed essential supplies of oil to Zimbabwe from the Mozambican port city of Beira. As a result, streets and highways in Zimbabwe are now largely deserted, many workers stay home, and motorists who insist on filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from...
Tapping the Fed's computer
...most Friday afternoons at 4:15, the Federal Reserve releases the money-supply figures from the previous week. In the past, that has set off a flurry of activity in financial centers around the world. Short-term interest rates often rise or fall on the basis of what the Fed reports, causing swings in the prices of bonds and often stocks. Anyone who could find out in advance what the figures would be might reap huge profits by buying or selling...
...Nelligan as an actress, says Joseph Papp, whose Public Theater brought Plenty to the U.S., is her "tremendous self-confidence," and that, apparently, is something she has always had. Brought up in London, Ont., where her father worked for the city parks system, she seems to have been bottle-fed selfesteem. "There were six children," she says. "But my mother always made me feel that I would do something important, which stood me in good stead." She cannot remember a time when she did not work hard, and when she was only 16, she entered the University of Toronto. That...