Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that idea of staying like a little kid. Being sick was a way for my parents to take care of me still," she says. "And my parents really fed into that. It became a way of not dealing with social situations...
...Fed up with the failing economy, Lithuanians handed their former Communist leaders a surprise victory in the first parliamentary election for the tiny Baltic nation since it won independence last year. The conquest of the newly formed Democratic Labor Party, headed by moderate ex-Communist Algirdas Brazauskas, dealt a bitter blow to the nationalist Sajudis party, which had heroically spearheaded Lithuania's break with Moscow and hastily set off on a path of economic reform. Brazauskas has promised to slow the pace of change and improve relations with Russia...
...this regard, Jose Canseco may have the most telling quote of the season. In explaining why he didn't mind his surprising late-season trade to the Texas Rangers, Canseco lamented: "In Oakland, it was always win, win, win--and you get fed up with...
...better than neutral in its impact on the economy, while fiscal policy was contractionary among states and cities that were raising taxes and cutting spending. Bush and his other advisers, however, showed no enthusiasm for Boskin's proposal, preferring to rely on interest-rate cuts promised by the Fed...
...surrounding countryside, newly developed irrigation systems nourished the barley, wheat, flax and other crops that fed the growing cities. Period drawings from Sumer, part of Mesopotamia, provide the earliest known evidence of wheels -- essentially wooden planks rounded at the ends and fitted together in a circle -- which were used on ox-drawn carts and, later, chariots. Sailing ships embarked on distant trading missions. By 3000 B.C., the world's first written language, cuneiform, had appeared on small clay tablets, replacing the strings of marked clay tokens that merchants had previously used to keep track of their transactions. And at least...