Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a man disadvantage could route Harvard, which played of its best hockey while killing penalties. With Rob Ohno off the ice for hitting after the whistle, freshman Lane MacDonald pilfered the puck from Bruin Pat Davis and fed Scott Fusco, who broke away for the game's first goal at 7:50 of the first period...
...Ethiopians have arrived in abysmally poor condition. Said one Israeli involved in the resettlement program: "They are coming here less than ill clothed, less than ill fed and without homes. We have had to start from scratch." In fact, some arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport carrying nothing but water pails, cherished possessions in drought-stricken Sudan and Ethiopia. Many suffer from malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, jaundice, typhus and tapeworm. "I had to go back to my textbooks to look up some of these diseases," said an Israeli doctor...
...election campaign heated up, the Administration had harsh words for the Federal Reserve, where Chairman Paul Volcker stood firm for a restrictive policy. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in May: "If the Fed continues on its tight path now, it will have an effect on November and December. Is that politics, and does that have us worried? You bet your life it has us worried...
...falling cost of borrowing reflects the Federal Reserve Board's willingness to increase the money supply and keep the recovery rolling. "The Fed is taking extraordinary steps to ensure that the economy picks up momentum," said Wayne Lyski, a vice president of Alliance Capital Management Corp. Members of the Open Market Committee, the Fed's policymaking arm, met behind closed doors early in the week to discuss monetary strategy. On Friday after the stock market closed, the Federal Reserve lowered the rate it charges on loans to commercial banks, from 8½% to 8%. The Fed was charging...
...information gathered will then be fed into computers. Classified data on weapon yields and height of bursts will be included as well. Still, there is no guarantee that all the mysteries of nuclear winter can be unraveled. Says Alan Hecht, director of the National Climate Program Office in Washington: "We're being asked to solve a question that is at the heart of meteorology today." In other words, if scientists cannot predict tomorrow's weather, how can they foresee the aftermath of World...