Word: feds
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Davis sees the playwright as a prism focusing the quirks and obsessions of society. "It's important to be very conscious of the pulse of society. I think people go to the theatre to be fed, to be nourished in some way, and I think that that's the obligation a playwright has: that they are in some way to look to themselves and to be a reflection of what's going on in society, and then write about that...
Quarreling among top agency officials sometimes slows down operations. As a result, the UNHCR'S chief of mission in Pakistan, Roman Kohaut, is retiring in disgust. "I'm fed up with the mess in Geneva," Kohaut told TIME'S Wibo Vandelinde last month. "UNHCR resembles a delicatessen that has grown into a huge supermarket but has never adapted its management. Geneva refuses to listen to urgent advice from the field...
...eventually Bobby and Emily began to agree with each other. Last week the couple announced that they would be wed on March 6. Young Bobby is the son of Ethel and the late Robert Kennedy, and the nephew of President John Kennedy. Emily is the blossomy, corn-fed daughter of a Bloomington, Ind., lumberman. Said Bobby: "My father won Indiana in 1968, and her mother is a Democrat who voted for him. I checked that fact out before I popped the question...
...Francisco, both Regan and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker addressed the annual convention of the American Bankers Association. Regan made his now familiar pitch for the Fed to live up to its stated policies, adding that "I'm not saying anything publicly that I have not said for weeks in private." But Volcker pointedly rejected Regan's advice and stated flatly that he would not start pumping additional money into the economy. Volcker also denied that Regan had privately asked him to boost the money supply. Aside from their policy differences, there is little love lost between...
After Regan's attack on Fed policies, the White House pressured the agencies involved to produce some agreed-upon "guidance" that all spokesmen could adhere to. A memo of understanding, signed by Sprinkel and Stockman's top economic aide, Lawrence Kudlow, among others, said that all concerned agreed on a steady slow growth of the money supply, which the Fed was moving to accomplish. The message ended: "Nothing which has been said in recent days indicates a retreat from that commitment." A White House spokesman as much as admitted that concern about economic disunity had been only temporarily...