Word: feds
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...from? After the massacre, two set of "facts" were put forth, one from the most extreme, right-wing government in Israel's history, the other from Palestinian civilians who clearly have a political agenda. Neither source can be considered unbiased or even reliable. But the Israeli government "facts" were fed to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), known as the Israeli Lobby. AIPAC's executive director is a registered foreign agent of Israel, and AIPAC's job is to support the Israeli government regardless of its actions and to minimize damage to Israel's reputation. AIPAC has a student...
...shock presents U.S. political and economic leaders with agonizing choices. To spur the slumping economy, the Federal Reserve Board would normally loosen credit and allow interest rates to fall. But Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has been reluctant to do that because of the inflationary pressure of rising oil prices, which helped push the consumer price index to an annual rate of nearly 10% in August. Greenspan has suggested that interest rates would be allowed to fall if the Administration and Congress can reach a credible deficit-cutting agreement, which would reduce the pressure of government borrowing on the credit markets...
...lives in semi-retirement, no longer a true participant in his culture. Suddenly it baffles him. The novel is divided into three sections: FL, PA and MI (Myocardial Infarction, not Mighigan). These chapters explore his confusion on three levels: first about his retirement, then about his son's drug-fed life and finally about his own body and behavior...
...Bonn's partners in the E.C. and NATO, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is the head of Britain's bothered-about-Germany group, which includes politicians like former Trade Minister Nicholas Ridley and a tabloid- fed, anti-German segment of the public. "Their specific fears are hard to pin down," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a specialist on Germany at Southampton University. "It's not about Germans pulling on their jackboots and marching into Poland. It's fear about a tendency toward neutralism, and that with its enormous economic power, Germany will assert itself and be less willing to defer...
...problem started when Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan told a Congressional subcommittee that the Fed would not lower interest rates until inflation is stabilized. Right now, stabilizing inflation necessarily means getting the price of oil to fall...