Word: feds
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...rates simultaneously.) Sharp fluctuations in exchange rates would be a very unwelcome complication to this effort. So, Putnam predicts, financial technocrats will get involved. "Instead of getting wild swings, we may end up with fixed exchange rates" between the euro and the dollar, set by tacit agreement between the Fed and the Euroland bank...
...Residents are] fed up with the whole thing. A lot of people aren't voting," the 18-year resident said. "They don't care who's in office...
...saddest interpretation is that Moses is penalized for mourning his sister. Few figures in Exodus are as vividly drawn, if infrequently featured, as Miriam. It is she who, as a child, saw to it that Pharaoh's daughter temporarily returned Moses to his natural mother to be breast-fed; it is Miriam who danced for joy at the crossing of the Red Sea. She is one of only four women the Hebrew Bible describes as a prophetess. Moses clearly loves her. At one point, she and Aaron complain about Moses' marriage to a "Cushite," which some scholars believe meant...
Frederick T. Long is fed...
...much the same fashion, he worked on making sure that an automotive infrastructure developed along with the cars. Just like horses, cars had to be fed--so Ford pushed for gas stations everywhere. And as his tin lizzies bounced over the rutted tracks of the horse age, he campaigned for better roads, which eventually led to an interstate-highway system that is still the envy of the world...