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...fighting mounted, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who had led the U.S. only days before from the position of concerned mediator to that of avowed British ally, threw himself into an indirect attempt to provide a peaceful settlement. Haig's plan would have produced a cease-fire between the two sides by noon E.D.T. on Friday. But the effort failed, and at week's end the best hope for peace seemed to rest with the United Nations and a vague proposal sponsored by its Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Both Britain and Argentina...
...their college educations (a still-controversial but at least reasonable idea). Bok should not have been so imprecise--and consequently self-defeating--in his scenario-making. If he was conniving to hoard all the bucks for this University, then he was foolish to do so in such a crassly indirect--but suspect--manner...
...House residents agree that Masters continue to exercise considerable indirect effect over the tone and image of their Houses, and some make specific efforts to enhance or modify House life. Dowling says he and his wife are trying to make Leverett House more informal, planning an outing to their home in Woods Hole for all sophomores next fall. Other innovations include jaunts to museum exhibits in Boston and a dinner for juniors because "we felt they were being left...
...time; I should remember that he needed bolstering and support. She was, of course (she said), calling on her own without her boss's knowledge. (The odds were that he was standing beside her, prompting her while she talked.) It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight into my reaction; and the attempt to soften it through a preposterous charade that would get him over the first hurdle...
...Reserve Board has no direct control over M-1 but has several indirect means of regulating its growth. For one thing, U.S. law requires banks to keep a portion of their deposits in accounts at the Fed in the form of so-called reserves. By changing what is known as the "reserve requirements," the Reserve Board can determine the amount of money that commercial banks have avail able to lend out to borrowers. On a day-to-day basis, though, the Federal Reserve influences the money supply through "open market operations," or buying and selling Treasury bonds, bills and notes...