Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday--Fed up with attempts to garner a Commencement speaker, and with two weeks remaining, Harvard decides to allow seniors to make suggestions. House committees distribute questionnaires in the dining halls, and the response rate tops that of any other referendum in the last five years...
...spoon-fed little rich kid," Loeb called Bush during his 1980 primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. Knowing full well that such Loeb rantings still rattled around in the minds of his audience, Bush parried by recounting them himself. After Loeb called him an "incompetent liberal masquerading as a conservative," Bush says he formed a task force to win Loeb over. Subsequently, Bush noted, came other Loeb broadsides: "Involved up to his neck in Watergate . . . candidate of the Trilateralists and Rockefeller barons." When Loeb wrote that "Republicans should flee the candidacy of George Bush as if it were the Black Plague...
...some officials are taking measures to slow down or control the corporate wheeling and dealing. The Federal Reserve Board has been concerned about the financial impact of consolidations and is seeking to make it tougher to float junk bonds. Under a ruling likely to take effect in January, the Fed would limit the size of many junk-bond issues to 50% of the amount offered for a company. The move could cause a slowdown in takeovers and buyouts, at least until ingenious Wall Street moneymen devise new methods of raising funds...
...attempts to curtail corporate consolidations will be opposed by many Wall Streeters and takeover specialists. They argue that such action will only safeguard the jobs of incompetent company executives. Says Pickens: "What the Fed and Cuomo are doing is wrong. It will just further entrench entrenched management. They will finally get all doors closed so that they can go about their business as usual...
...learned in school a generation ago had to be subsequently unlearned. The most healthy diet was once considered to be red meat every day and lots of eggs and milk too. The auto would run for a year on a uranium pill. Babies (the more the better) must be fed on a strict schedule every three hours; no, babies must be fed whenever they cry; no, on a schedule . . . And the sun never sets on the British empire...