Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voiced their concern to Goode about nine months ago. The mayor, members reported, said he would act in due time. Recalled Thomas: "He said that a baseball game has nine innings and we were in the seventh." Subsequently, club members could not reach Goode, and police ignored their complaints. Fed up at last, the club called a press conference to ventilate complaints and add to the pressure on the city. When the confrontation came, the club was on the verge of filing a suit to force action...
...said, "I don't live anywhere." He was dumbfounded. So he said, "Well, you can stay at my apartment." So I stayed there for the first two weeks. He didn't try to rape me or anything. He showed me where everything was, and he fed me breakfast. It was perfect. (In Southern-lady accent) I relied on the kindness of strangers. So then I auditioned and got a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey school. I wasn't worried about not getting anywhere as a dancer. I knew I was a decent dancer. It was great. I moved from...
...treatment of dissidents like Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who, along with his wife Yelena Bonner, has been exiled to the isolated city of Gorky. Soviet sources indicate that Sakharov went on a five-day hunger strike last month that ended when he was taken to a hospital and was force-fed...
...future of the dollar rests largely in the hands of the Federal Reserve Board. The power of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker to influence the dollar on exchange markets has been clearly demonstrated in recent weeks. When he said last month that he thought that European central bankers should intervene in world currency exchanges more aggressively to keep the dollar's value down, the dollar began weakening. The currency then slid sharply when central banks started actively selling dollars, as he had recommended...
...Reserve switched to a much tighter money policy in 1979. As long as the American central bank continues to follow that tactic, the dollar is likely to remain strong. Jitters that have hit foreign-exchange markets in recent months all have one thing in common: the fear that the Fed would ease up on money policy. Following last month's temporary closing of 69 savings institutions in Ohio, the dollar took a beating in money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect...