Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chairman Alan Greenspan had taken considerable heat earlier in the week for the board's reluctance to ease credit. President Bush turned it up to broil during his State of the Union address last Tuesday with the demand "Interest rates must come down now." Departing Fed member Martha Seger criticized the board for failing to ease credit earlier, which she believes might have prevented the recession. Seger contended that the Fed is staffed by academics with little business experience and even less sense of the effects of their decisions. The Fed's decisive move last week should dampen the criticism...
Switzerland was said to be abandoning its traditional neutrality by sending allied forces a rather unusual army division: a flock of 34,500 carrier pigeons. The Swiss do have such a unit, but they heatedly deny it will be dispatched to the gulf. "Our birds could not operate in such an environment," says a spokesman. "They would all fly back to Bern, if they weren't roasted by the desert heat or hostile fire...
...whether the Pentagon's grand doctrine of fighting superior numbers with superior technology will ultimately prevail. It may yet be possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall to the ultimate biological weapon...
...global warming upon us? Many climate experts say it is only a matter of time before heat trapped in the atmosphere by man-made chemicals raises world temperatures, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and generally wreaking havoc. Most also go on to caution that it is too soon to declare that the warming has begun. But two studies released last week evoked concern that a shift is already under way. Teams of scientists in the U.S. and Britain found that 1990 was the warmest year in more than a century of record keeping. The average worldwide temperature, said...
...global-warming theorists are correct, temperatures could rise by another 1 degrees to 4 degrees C (2 degrees to 8 degrees F) over the next half- century. Unfortunately, no one can say whether even a decade-long heat wave confirms this view or is merely a glitch. Worse, says Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "By the time the evidence is irrefutable, it could be too late to do anything...