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...from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space age, and at every stage, a nation full of grateful believers making a constant noisy fuss over a piece of writing barely equivalent to a short story: much theme, no plot and characters inferred...
...ordinary Americans, much of the fuss about the appointment may have seemed puzzling. Significant as the Fed chairman's actions have often been in U.S. monetary history, the management of the nation's central banking system is shrouded in obscurity. The chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is one of seven presidential appointees who as a group oversee 25 branches of the central bank, which is organized into twelve districts nationwide.* Ordinary governors serve 14-year terms, while the , chairman is chosen for four years. One purpose of the board is to regulate the behavior...
When Oliver North wanted to get something done quickly, secretly and with a minimum of fuss, he called his friend Richard Secord. In November 1985 Secord came to the rescue of frazzled White House officials by deftly diverting a plane that was scheduled for a weapons shipment to the contras to help transport arms to Iran. As North later wrote admiringly to Admiral John Poindexter, "Why Dick can do something in five minutes that the CIA cannot do in two days is beyond me -- but he does." Another time North wrote, "a man of many talents ol' Secord...
...first two ads are unlikely to cause much fuss. As two women run for a train and another heads for a fancy dinner, the camera reveals each in her bra for a few seconds. Even so, NBC will only run the spots when children are in school. What next? Advertisers of men's underwear are already seeking the right to follow suit...
Even after listening many times to works well-established in the classical canon, some will shrug and ask themselves what the fuss is all about. Such is life. But many people may find in the music of the classical "greats" something missing from other types of music...