Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take the credit for this one: everyone thinks the economy is "worse than it was during the Great Depression." And everyone thinks the Japanese are swamping us. Good. That got us elected. We've fed their fears. Blown up the problem. Now we have to calm them down...
...beyond the pale of academic discussion. That's what the Philosophy department is for, after all. What I found unsettling about this particular statement, however, was less its content than where I ran across it--in a science text. In a philosophy class one is prepared to be fed mataphysical must. But I have always been under the impression that the sciences were the bastion of objectivity Evangelism, I thought, had been relegated to the humanities...
...certain age -- say 35, maybe 40 -- the news was slightly unnerving. Even those who hadn't seen the big book since their childhood recognized a loss, not necessarily of a shopping aid but of an innocence and optimism and simplicity of desire that the catalog both thrived on and fed...
Although he rewarded them with bonuses of up to 20%, it was not enough to keep a cabal of fed-up senior officers from secretly engineering his ouster. While it has become common for rebellious corporate boards to dismiss underachieving CEOs for uneven performance, this may be the first instance of a board's firing a chief executive for erratic behavior...
...quarreling with her own National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) coalition. Now Madam President has added three more Sandinistas to her Cabinet and announced a new economic plan with emphasis on social issues that appeals to the Sandinistas -- plus a 20% devaluation of the cordoba and a freeze on government spending. Fed up, U.N.O. officially broke with Chamorro, and marched through the streets of Managua vowing to drive her from power. When she inaugurated the year's first National Assembly session Sunday, U.N.O. boycotted, leaving the 39 Sandinista Deputies and eight U.N.O. holdouts to form a new majority. The Sandinistas, the largest...