Word: feds
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...years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with...
...Fed up with being an Annenberg satellite, Adams recently shut its dining hall doors to first-years for the first time. Last week, the Adams House Committee (HoCo) unilaterally decided to extend its restrictions on Dartboard and his first-year friends for all lunch and dinner hours. The most restrictive dining hall policy in Adams’ history—Dartboard does not take the ban lightly. That the Adams HoCo was able to impose the ban without consulting affected first-years and non-Adamsians calls the policy into question...
Heartbreak came with 4:10 remaining. Kolarik had the chance to play a loose puck along the boards, but unknowingly turned the wrong way. That fed Moore, who dug it out from the dasher and fired a slapper that eluded Grumet-Morris low to his left side...
...Oxford English Dictionary (OED) reveals this definition of “vet”: “to examine carefully and critically for deficiencies or errors; specifically to investigate the suitability of (a person) for a post that requires loyalty and trustworthiness.” The public is fed up with perfidy after all—epitomized appropriately enough in a 1998 movie titled Wag the Dog—and the media’s talk of “vetting” reflects an interest in returning to values Americans want in their leaders. This is what vetting...
...small caveat. Rates have been declining for most of the past 20 years, a cycle that has probably ended. Yet few economists expect rates to shoot higher and keep moving up. If rates rise 2 percentage points over several years, an ARM might still prove cost effective. Underlying the Fed chief's call to ARMs is that we could be in a low-rate environment for years...