Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heard a mournful radio report that began, "We have sad news for you." In the hours that followed, as they gathered on street corners and prayed for the Pope's survival, Poland's state-controlled radio and television stations carried an unprecedented torrent of live news reports fed by satellite from the West...
...movement in the 20th century, originally were a tiny community on the Rhine. The Ashkenazim founded modern political Zionism and brought to Israel Western values, education, technology and tastes. The problem lies in the fact that often they look down on Sephardim, and the Sephardim on them, a phenomenon fed by ethnic differences. Sephardim tend to live in small towns, raise large families, and to eat foods that even now reflect their Spanish heritage. Rice, for example, is permitted during Passover. Ashkenazim tend to make their homes in the city or the kibbutz, and are often lighter in skin...
Laudable though these goals may be, the Fed's action was not joyously welcomed on Wall Street, where investors have much the same attitude toward escalating interest rates as W.C. Fields had toward children and small animals. The day of the discount rate hike, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 16 points; the next day it lost another 7. There was some recovery as the week wore on, and the Dow closed Friday at 976.40, still well below its high this year of 1024, set only a few days before the discouraging money-supply report...
...still covered with tree trunks, some more than 400 years old, some a mere seven, their roots pointing back toward the source of the shock wave that flattened them. Just below the mountain stands Coldwater Lake. A year ago, it was the highly scenic source of a creek that fed the Toutle River. Now the valley through which the Toutle flowed is blocked by a 600-ft.-tall wall of volcanic mud and debris. The lake has been slowly filling with dirty water, threatening to overflow eventually and send a torrent of mud downstream...
...speaking of investing, with any luck the athletic department will take this perfect opportunity to equip Soldiers Field with a press box of the new, modern type--maybe model it after the Astrodome. That would be an investment in good publicity, because comfortable, well-fed reporters will surely make the Brian Buckley's of the future look better in the papers the next...