Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money for new babies just sends the wrong moral message and should be stopped on those grounds alone." Laracy is focused on the kids and argues just the opposite: "Cut off from benefits, they'll be worse off, with a greater chance to be abused, to be ill fed and to do poorly in life...
Neil Rudenstine falls ill and makes the cover of Newsweek. Alan Dershowitz helps defend O.J. Simpson. Professor Hack gains notoriety by legitimizing the notion of outer space sex offenders. The omnivorous appetite of the mass media and its allure have fed on and been fed by the Harvard community. Where once we were a breeding ground and intellectual wellspring for leaders today we are becoming an adept player and purveyor in the mass media game...
While Greenspan has been surprised by how hard his soft landing is turning out to be, he and his supporters at the Fed are convinced the slump is a temporary "inventory correction'' -- a pause while businesses draw down inventories they overbuilt during the rapid growth of the past two years. "We're not as surprised as some outsiders to see some weak numbers,'' insists Fed governor Janet Yellen, a Clinton appointee. "These are actually consistent with the [soft landing] scenario...
...frail recovery were blamed on rate hikes engineered by Greenspan. In the next nine months, Clinton must decide whether to appoint him to a third consecutive term as chairman. Greenspan might like that. Enough to soften his reluctance to reduce rates? If not, there are others on the Fed who are less reluctant. "I don't think there is going to be a recession,'' says vice chairman Alan Blinder, a Clinton nominee who thinks job creation is as important a mandate as Greenspan's focus on inflation fighting. "But I am worried about...
...authorized. Without it, the U.S. would have more trouble assembling coalitions from scratch in each crisis, or it might have to invent a new international organization (this may become necessary anyway). But the notion that U.S. decisions are subject to the U.N. is a somewhat paranoid fallacy, fed by the Clinton Administration's vacillations and its rhetoric about multilateralism. We can use the U.N. selectively and avoid asking it to undertake things it was never set up to do. To a large extent we can control it; we certainly cannot be made to do anything against our will...