Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people prepared, so did the government. It imposed a 48-hour curfew to limit street demonstrations. Ironically, the curfew made Chile's 24-hour general strike last week far more effective than widespread street rioting would have been. Fed up with the ten-year-old regime of General Augusto Pinochet, thousands of Chileans kept their children home from school to protest their country's 30% unemployment and 30% inflation. Public transportation was scarce, and a majority of truckers stayed off the roads. After the Santiago Retailers Association joined the protest, most stores closed their doors. At nightfall...
What kept the Cantabs in control until Black's arrival was the continued impressive play of Harvard's defense fed by juniors Ellen O'Neill, Andy Mainelli and Jennifer Greeley, the Crimson defense made life tougher for the Eagles than a Lisa Black shot on goal...
...addition, because of a lack of cooking facilities, prisoners in the cells are fed on hamburgers and drinks from the nearby McDonald's Paolillo said...
...Reagan Administration who is now a professor at Georgetown University. Supply-siders contend that the main factor propping up interest rates is the Federal Reserve's tight money policy. They argue that it was the Reserve Board that caused the recession and that if the 'Fed would loosen up, interest rates would come down and growth would stay strong...
...risk a recession; 2) they can expand the money supply enough to accommodate the deficits and possibly rekindle inflationary pressures. Chairman Volcker and several other board members have signaled their determination not to give up the progress that has been made against rising prices. Says one governor: "The Fed is going to stick it out." But another governor thinks that the board would have to back down in a crunch. Says he: "If a crisis develops that would cause a serious downturn in the economy, we should do what is necessary to remedy this. But you have to realize that...