Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the trees have been disappearing, fed into pitiful cooking fires. If the refugees could burn corpses, there would be fuel enough for weeks...
Even if the doctors manage to treat the diseases, survivors need to be fed and sheltered. Goma alone requires 600 metric tons of food a day, 1 million blankets, 200,000 rolls of plastic sheeting, 200,000 jerricans, 80 water tankers and 90 to 100 trucks to carry food the 497 miles from the Ugandan capital of Entebbe -- and these numbers are sure to grow. When the Red Cross began its food distribution, a child was trampled when the crowd, desperate that there would not be enough to go around, surged forward. "If it runs out, or if it doesn...
...that point, hundreds of Palestinians rioted on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel last week in a skirmish between Israeli soldiers and P.L.O. policemen that left two Palestinians dead. The reason for the disturbance: the Palestinians, 20,000 of whom travel to Israel daily for work, were fed up with long lines at the checkpoint into Israel and with the Israeli quotas that keep thousands of them unemployed in job-poor Gaza...
...rewrite a script by a really good writer, you may think that all you're doing is taking this wonderfully idiosyncratic thing and homogenizing it into a 'Hollywood' movie. But sometimes, after two or three years and three or four rewrites, the original writer can get ground down and fed up. Personalities can get flinty. The memos take on an edgy tone...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that the central bank will probably raise interest rates again this year to avert inflation, despite predictions that the Fed had had its fill of rate hikes this year. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average obliged with a 20-point plummet. Greenspan, in his semiannual address to lawmakers, told the Senate Banking Committee that any signs of inflation would probably trigger a Fed vote to take interest rates--and the rates on consumer loans like mortgages--even higher...