Word: feds
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...Fed chairman/NBC White House correspondent (dating); adroit on tennis courts and as dinner partners...
...General Reno, however, is confident that stricter gun control is possible. "The NRA doesn't particularly care for me," she told TIME last week, "But it's important for the NRA to understand what this stuff has done to America. I just think the American people are sick and fed up with what assault weapons have done. I can remember the first time I saw an assault weapon. It is deadly. It is a horrible thing. The American people have come to realize what these weapons are doing on our streets. They are saying, Enough is enough is enough...
...this point, colleagues were beginning to get fed up with Kerrey's coy approach. Said a Senate leadership aide: "A lot of people here really resent having to go over there to court the guy. We didn't think it was a perfect bill, but it was the best compromise that we could get." Two hours before the final vote in the Senate, Democratic Senators Thomas Daschle of South Dakota and Harry Reid of Nevada walked into Kerrey's office. Both looked grim. When they emerged half an hour later, neither was smiling. Asked if they were confident that...
...Will the Fed raise interest rates? Though inflation is low and holding steady, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board chairman, told a House subcommittee he was disappointed that it "has at best stabilized, rather than easing" in the face of a 7% unemployment rate. Greenspan was hopeful on the economy, however, predicting growth of 2.5% for the year and a drop of 0.25% in the jobless rate by year's end. Greenspan also disclosed last week that the Fed is moving away from more than 15 years of reliance upon monetarism -- the attempt to guide economic growth by adjusting...
...violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members' backgrounds. Fisher, the skinhead leader, is the son of a grade-school teacher and a computer- science instructor; neighbors say many of his friends are nonwhite. But the relative of another suspect saw trouble coming. "He said he was fed up with Mexicans, blacks," said Rene Nadal of his son Christian. "I tried to convince him not to hate...