Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studying his choices and talking with family and friends about seeking the G.O.P. nomination. The closer Powell gets to the decision, the deeper the chaos that grips the Republican Party, the G.O.P. presidential field and the Clinton White House--and the greater the anticipation of millions of American voters fed up with all three. Powell insists to friends he won't be swayed by the crush of adoring fans. "My enemies don't line up to buy books," he told a friend. "Supporters...
...SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, Helen Miller struck another unlikely blow for organized labor last summer. Miller, a member of the service-employees union who spends seven hours a day tending to a tube-fed stroke victim, fought for and won a change in Illinois law that raised the hourly wages for state-paid, home-health-care aides from $3.35 to $5. As the head of volunteer action for the union local, Miller was the first nurse's aide to testify on behalf of the bill. Now she spends her free time organizing home-health-care workers to demand medical benefits...
ANYONE PONDERING HIS OR HER SUNSET YEARS WILL REMEMBER THE expose of the shocking conditions in nursing homes circa 1970. Woefully undertrained workers strapped patients to hard-backed chairs, fed them cheap diets and kept them in a whimpering state of sedation. There were tales of urine-soaked hospital gowns and of false teeth collected at night and thrown into a communal vessel that patients had to fish through in the morning. All this and more was documented by the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. The next year Congress passed legislation to address decades of abuse of the elderly...
...Iguchi confession was the second revelation last week to batter the once towering reputation of Tokyo's banking system. Three days earlier, Jim Leach, chairman of the U.S. House Banking Committee, had disclosed that the Fed had agreed to come to the rescue if a liquidity crisis beset U.S. subsidiaries of Japan's banks. The news provoked concern among government officials in both countries. Tokyo feared that breaching the agreement's secrecy would create financial-market anxiety by raising more questions about Japanese banking stability. The Fed's portrayal of the agreement as virtually risk free raised hackles in Washington...
...Henry's Feast) to create that curiosity known as environmental theater. Song of Singapore was set in a lavish nightclub in 1941. For Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding you went to church, then to a restaurant. When Tamara came to New York, visitors wandered through an armory and were fed by the chefs of the posh eatery Le Cirque...