Word: feds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fresh Breeze in Gaza How refreshing and indeed surprising to read Andrew Lee Butters' report "A Sort of Peace in Gaza" [Aug. 20]. For far too long, we in the Western world have been fed a one-sided view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which Israel is portrayed as the victim of Palestinian obstinance and aggression without any questioning why Palestinians are so aggrieved. Those who cared to look beyond the rhetoric of U.S. and Israeli policy and familiarize themselves with the appalling injustice that has befallen the Palestinian people over the past 60 years could not fail...
...nets yield almost no fish today, the same as yesterday and the day before that. For generations, Bun Neang's family has depended on the bounty of Cambodia's Tonle Sap, a vast lake fed by one of the world's greatest rivers, the Mekong. Two decades ago, his father could rely on a daily catch totaling about 65 lbs. (30 kg). When the water gods were feeling particularly charitable, he would land a Mekong catfish, a massive bottom-feeder that can weigh as much as a tiger. But today, when Bun Neang dips his net into the caramel-hued...
...first big global liquidity crisis came a few years later, on the morning after the 1987 stock-market crash. Fearful banks stopped lending until new Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan restored confidence with reassuring words and piles of cash. Greenspan did the same when credit markets froze after the Russian government defaulted on its debts in 1998. But he was criticized afterward for being perhaps too generous and reassuring and for launching an era of overly easy money...
...Bernanke's turn. He and his Fed colleagues have sprinkled cash around and made loans to banks, but they've also made a point of moving so slowly and deliberately as to enrage some on Wall Street. Are they getting the balance right? We should know by the time the movie version comes...
COMPUTER MODELING All data are fed into storm-surge models, which help predict flooding. Wind forecasts are still subpar. The average error in 2005 was 23 m.p.h., the same...