Word: feds
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...were named to the Board of Governors, Friedman would work with Fed chair Alan Greenspan, other members of the Board of Governors and the presidents of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, to set interest rates and manage the money supply...
...position of vice chair became available when current vice chair Alan Blinder announced last week that he will not seek renomination when his term expires on January 31. Blinder said he will return to teaching at Princeton University, where he worked before assuming his Fed post in June...
Another Princeton economics professor has also been mentioned as a candidate for the post. Peter Kenen, a professor of economics and international finance, had was also rumored to be under consideration for a Fed spot in 1993. Kenen received his doctorate from Harvard...
...orphanage resembled neither the "showcase" facility that Beijing opened to foreign journalists last week nor the horror institute described by Human Rights Watch/Asia. While the orphanage needed many things--more light, a paint job, toys--the facility was heated, the nurses were attentive, and the children were well fed, overbundled and bored. Several U.S. adoption experts tell me this description matches the conditions they routinely encounter...
Prodded by large companies fed up with rising medical costs, the new medicine's entrepreneurs have turned health care into a corporate battlefield increasingly governed by the promise of stock market wealth, incentives that reward minimal care and a brand of aggressive competition alien to front-line doctors for whom dressing for success still means wearing khakis and a lab coat...