Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market recognizes that the deficit has left the Federal Reserve in a no-win predicament. If the Fed keeps the money supply tight, interest rates will rise as the economy expands and the credit needs of private business collide with heavy Government borrowing. But if the Reserve Board lets the money supply grow fast enough to accommodate the deficit, inflation will probably be rekindled. Volcker has pledged that he will not give up the progress against inflation that the U.S. achieved at the cost of a deep recession. Because of his tough monetary stance and the economic downturn it generated...
...answers lie partly in the master's mistreatment of his apprentices, who were made to work long hours and fed on rotten scraps that the pet cat refused to eat. They also lie partly in the popular tradition of torturing felines, which were widely associated with both sorcery and sexuality, and which were often burned on religious holidays. But why did the printers find that funny? By "accidentally" including the pet along with the alley cats, they were not only symbolically punishing the master but symbolically accusing his wife of witchcraft and symbolically raping her. And getting away with...
...Andropov were tools of vicious repression, again true. Our government is quick to supply us with examples of Soviet ruthlessness and brutality. All the more reason, therefore, we should turn a fearful countenance to our own "Big Brother." Unfortunately, documented examples of CIA spying and murder are more often fed to the paper-shredder than to the media. The car-bombing of Cuban diplomat Orlando Letelier, however, is certainly attributable to the CIA during Bush's tenure. There are other examples, equally frightening, which space will not allow...
...tour in Israel, provided gratis by the Ministry of Tourism, gave me a chance to talk to some Israelis about the problems they face. The Ministry's tour, geared primarily for travel agents to promote tourism hit all the famous tourist spots, put us up in fancy hotels and fed us extremely well. Yet we were given little time to explore...
...final period, the icewomen were quick to find their scoring touch again. At 1:56 Hurley fell on a rush in the Terrier zone, but fed Deb Taft for the goal while down on the ice. Exactly two minutes later junior Mara McTaggart got her first goal of the year from close...