Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to halt the drop, the Federal Reserve Board fumbled the job, adding to the trouble. The Fed, which regularly buys 91-day Treasury bills as part of its normal operations, cryptically announced that it was "broadening" its open-market operations. This led many to believe that the Fed intended to buy enough long-term bonds to cushion the market; it gave courage to the market, attracted buyers back into bonds. But the Fed's purchases were limited to buying $1 billion of one-year certificates to aid the Treasury's July refinancing operation. As the effect...
...across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant to the President of the U.S. since the start of Ike's first term, counseled his boss to resist the pressures for inflation-breeding, damn-the-deficits programs. The downturn would halt during the year's second quarter, Hauge firmly predicted, and then an upturn would slowly...
Such was the mood of tragic burlesque in which the great Goldfine show bumped and ground to a halt last week. In the final hours the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tugged a few more details from crafty Witness Goldfine, who, giving only facts that he knew the committee could already prove from other sources, admitted to press and Congress that...
Turning Point. Men and nations launched moves without any knowledge of where the moves would lead-action led to reaction, threat to counterthreat. The U.S. moved marines into Lebanon with no certainty that the marines could halt in Lebanon without being drawn into shooting, or whether it might be preferable to the Western world to buttress a counterattack on Iraq. At that moment the answer to a single key question was still hidden behind Iraq's censorship and sealed borders. Was there anything to save in Iraq? At midweek came the answer: no. That was the turning point...
...better by color-coding its baby foods (yellow for meat, green for vegetables, coral for fruit) so that a housewife can load up in a hurry. The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt...