Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some hibernating monster that has roused itself to feed, the Western world's oil-fed inflation once again has national economies in a bear hug. Last week the squeeze grew tighter. There were reports from the Persian Gulf that the damage inflicted on Iraqi and Iranian oilfields during the current fighting would take months, and perhaps years, to repair. As a result, oil-importing countries are soon likely to see tightening oil markets and then higher crude prices...
...tighter Federal Reserve policy and higher interest rates provoked President Carter to lash out at the man he nominated 14 months ago to be Fed Chairman-Paul Volcker. For the past year the White House has steadfastly supported Volcker's policy of fighting inflation even at the price of high interest rates. Carter, now concerned about the impact of those interest rates on his re-election bid, last week labeled such a policy "ill advised." Volcker, in turn, said that banks had "jumped and anticipated too much" by raising rates so quickly...
...about every rise and dip in the value of the dollar. De Vries has forecast U.S. balance of payments results so accurately that the Federal Reserve once launched an investigation to find out if some of its staffers were leaking the figures before the official publication date. All the Fed learned was that De Vries has a "secret formula" for calculating trade balances that he vows never to reveal...
...fundamental idea behind Somewhere In Time is that true love can overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs...
...Plan we devised three years ago was to develop our capacity to influence public opinion in the West, through disinformation fed to governments and opinion formers and, above all, through media operations...