Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Greenspan speak so loudly? Well, it's a long way to the next Fed meeting, and it's been a while since the last one. The FOMC evidently figured it was time to give a little guidance lest anyone get the wrong idea that the last meeting's change in policy - unaccompanied as it was by any change in the tone of the Fed's statement - was anything but a clumsy compromise with some inflation-fearing regional bank presidents...
...still is brilliant. In other cases it was neutral—like the disorganized lab partner that Neff remembers from high school, the Summers of today requires a rule that says you are “never to give Larry the only version of anything” lest it “disappear into the pile...
...situations where elections function as a symbol of democracy, but don't guarantee its practice. It's what evolves after an election that truly makes a society democratic - a free press, limits placed on the exercise of power by an independent judiciary, an open system of government. In 1933, lest we forget, Hitler came to power after elections conducted under Germany's impeccably democratic Weimar constitution...
...truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Certainly, not all of the horror stories we hear about grievous errors supposedly inflicted on friends of acquaintances of roommates could possibly be true, lest most of the people on campus suddenly find themselves pregnant quadriplegics carrying a bottle of aspirin as they wander to class. Yet the picture is not as rosy as JCAHO portrays...
...guys who grew up in the company. Although Ford and Nasser talk often, Nasser moves so fast that important decisions have been made without Ford's input. Ford has been frustrated at not having more say, although he realizes that he can't be seen to be interfering lest that tip the scales with Nasser, who, an executive says, can be "as sensitive as nitroglycerin." "One thing Bill has to grow into is a sophisticated understanding of the fact that he is playing a long game," says a top company official. "He was smart to hang back during Firestone...