Word: feds
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With both Japan and West Germany trying to dampen their growth, the risk is that their measures will completely choke it off in the U.S. The situation once again puts the Federal Reserve in a precarious position. If the Fed leaves interest rates where they are, the economy might slide into a recession. But if it eases rates, the already flagging U.S. dollar might slump even more, which could readily spark inflation because Americans would have to pay more for imports. Even so, the Bush Administration hopes that the Fed will ease its grip on credit. Bush publicly called...
...considers the state of the nation this week, consider the state of George Bush after a year of power: he has floated $268 billion in new debt, helped create 2.5 million new jobs, fed and flattered and shaken hands with 25,000 guests in the White House and gone wild over Wallyball...
...last night against Princeton after sitting out two months with a broken collarbone, has always been known for his coolness in pressure situations. In his first game back last night, Donato led a Crimson resurgence just when it appeared Harvard was going to blow the game, and then later fed a game-winning miracle assist to John Weisbrod with two seconds left in overtime...
...Drury fed Donato an assist in the second period last night with Harvard trailing, 3-1, fueling a Crimson come-back just as the game appeared to he slipping away. In every game which Donato has played this season, he has appeared on Drury's line and the tandem seems to be effective--the junior has tallied three goals and three assists in five games...
Questioning everything, he also reached out to everything. "I am an omnivore," he says. He fed on the Beatles, for example, and what have been called "the song jewelers": Gershwin, Kern, Berlin. "I liked this music. It satisfied something." He also discovered ragtime and helped spearhead its revival in the 1970s with a nonchalantly elegant recording of rags by Joplin, Lamb, Scott and himself. More important, he discovered mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and began accompanying her around the country in dear old ditties like Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? They married...