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...Guests had no reason to doubt him. His divorce from Nancy, a fellow Central Intelligence Agency employee, had become final only 12 days earlier in New York City. In preceding months, Ames had complained bitterly to colleagues at the CIA that the long, messy divorce had gutted his modest civil service paycheck, leaving him "poor...
...late is d). True enough, the increase engineered by the Fed in February -- a boost in the short-term rate from 3% to only 3.25% -- was still low by historic standards and applied only to the federal funds rate on loans from one bank to another. But even that modest move sent stock and bond markets into a tizzy, largely because the boost was the first after a five-year fall in borrowing costs. Moreover, the almost universal assumption % is that Greenspan, having reversed course, probably will not stop there...
...Even the most inexperienced viewer cannot remain untouched by the absorbing energy and beauty of the production. After its 1990 grand premire, Swan Lake. appeared again in 1992; it has evolved into the "glittering, critically-acclaimed jewel in the crown" of the Boston Ballet's repertoire, to use the modest words of Boston Ballet's own magazine, Sightless. While the production is politically avant-garde, Marks' interpretation remains utterly traditional...
Some council members suggest more modest andinternal proposals to alleviate the problems ofdeadweight...
Clinton's first budget does represent the boldest attempt in more than a decade to get a grip on federal spending and bring down the budget deficit. Under the Administration's optimistic numbers, 1995 outlays would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...