Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music, a return to familiar themes is called recapitulation. In literature going over old ground looks as if a writer has temporarily run out of material. Naipaul has attracted greatest attention with journalism and novels fed by travels to places that most people would avoid: regions of Africa, India, the Middle East and Latin America deformed by poverty, injustice and fanaticism. An outsider by birth and occupation, a tragedian by temperament, he reported caustically on a world where history and human nature mocked political idealism and personal ambitions...
...border; a sloppily drawn oval-headed fellow looks out quizzically from in front of a wall and a little box of a house capped with an aerial. The rather casual shabbiness of "OK" is a shameless bit of pandering to the idea of Generation X; evidently we are so fed up with the kaleidescopic self-promotion and colorful hype of Pepsi and Coke that we are helplessly susceptible to the soft-pedal...
...course, rising rates have also led some buyers to rush into the market while they can still afford a home. Outside Atlanta, Jim and Amanda Arnold bought a two-story house last month instead of waiting until August as they had intended. "The Fed took the indecision out of home buying," says Jim, who runs a valet-parking service and had to borrow to make the down payment earlier than planned...
...General Omar Bradley warned that expanding that conflict into China would create "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy." Bradley's advice was heeded, and he went on to glory. The course of today's economy will determine whether the Fed's offensive against inflation gives stature to its critics...
...Fed's fixation on inflation may be hurting the recovery...