Word: feds
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...houses on his property on Christmas Eve, drunk, bloodied and in his army personnel carrier. "It was like a Howard Hughes scenario," Martha du Pont, wife of John's brother Henry, told the Associated Press. "He withdrew from his family and surrounded himself with these strangers, moochers...people who fed him drugs...
Sponsored and jointly fed by TIME and CNN, the AllPolitics site will apply the combined journalistic strengths of the world's leading newsmagazine and its most successful cable-TV news organization to deliver up-to-the-minute coverage and in-depth analysis of the 1996 election campaign. With constant access to the reporting of TIME and CNN political correspondents, AllPolitics will provide not only news stories, poll and election results and links to relevant sites elsewhere on the Internet, but it will also feature interactive campaign quizzes and columns by experts from all over the political spectrum...
...past eight months will provide a kick-start to a gradually slowing economy, the Federal Reserve Wednesday lowered short-term interest rates one quarter point to 5.25 percent. Commercial banks quickly followed the move, dropping their prime lending rates to 8.25 percent. The White House welcomed the Fed's action, hoping that lower interest rates will encourage consumers to borrow and spend more. The cut came despite new government figures released Wednesday that show wholesale prices rose 0.5 percent for the second month in a row. The Fed said in a statement released after the cut that it believed inflationary...
...Fed's cut in interest rates spurred stocks higher Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average continued its upward surge, gaining 14.09 points to close at 5,395.30. The New York Stock Exchange composite index rose 2.75 to end the day at 340.03. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,578 to 824, with 712 unchanged. Volume was heavy, with 472.06 million shares traded. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 6.51 points to end the day at 1,057.81. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks gained 5.86 to close at 636.01. The American Stock Exchange market value index rose...
ROSS BECKER SAYS HE WAS fed up with tabloid television when he left his job as a local TV anchorman in Los Angeles last year and moved to Kentucky, where he now owns an FM radio station. But that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...