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...suspense. It raised short-term interest rates by one quarter point and returned its "bias" to neutral ?- and gave little sign of what it planned to do at its next meeting on August 24. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says that?s because Greenspan himself doesn?t know. "If the economy starts to slow down ?- and there are scattered indications that it?s beginning to ?- chances are he won?t raise again," he says. "But with consumer spending at its current blistering pace, he needs to look at two more months of data before he can decide...
...know a flatfoot who might like to walk the streets of Pristina, give Kofi Annan a call. The U.N. secretary general convened an urgent meeting of 18 foreign ministers Wednesday to plan for reconstruction in Kosovo, and appealed for member countries to supply personnel for a civilian police force for the beleaguered province. "The military isn?t trained to keep the peace when it comes to local-level confrontations between groups of two or three people," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. And with only half of the envisaged peacekeeping complement of 50,000 actually deployed so far, lawlessness...
...symbol of Irish republicanism is the assault rifle. That is at the heart of the tricky situation facing British and Irish leaders, who, with a Wednesday deadline looming, on Tuesday entered a second day of make-or-break crisis talks on Northern Ireland?s future. "We?ve got to know that the gun will be taken out of Northern Irish politics," said Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair. "People will neither understand nor forgive if we don?t make this thing work... We are going to sort it out." At issue is the Unionist refusal to allow Sinn Fein...
Take a deep breath, everybody -? the stock market may be about to blow its own bubble. Everybody knows that Fed chairman Allan Greenspan is going to raise interest rates by one quarter point, most likely on Wednesday. And everyone?s reasonably sure that the markets, which have been stewing about this for weeks, will take off on the news like a bull outta hell, especially when they read the Fed?s post-meeting comments Wednesday and find no hint of further action. But do they know this rally could be its own worst enemy? "My guess is that...
...President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible. Meanwhile the big question remains: How necessary is the legislation? This is one of those rare instances where Washington has actually anticipated a problem. But it?s a problem whose dimensions no one will really know until 2000 rolls around...