Word: neatness
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...theory it all sounds neat, but in practice dozens of factors can throw off Federal Reserve calculations. The necessity of creating at least enough money for the Treasury to borrow to cover budget deficits is one. The strength or weakness of loan demand is perhaps the most important consideration. The Federal Reserve may set an interest-rate target of, say, 7¼% to 7¾% for Fed funds? which is believed to have been its goal in June. But if loan demand is exceptionally strong, it may have to put out more money than it wants to in order to keep...
...elevated train tracks of the Jamaica Ave. subway--the last of the rusting steel dinosaurs that once roamed all across New York's working-class neighborhoods. The El is the last remaining symbol of the era, long forgotten, when New York was a carefully-watched melting pot, a neat patchwork of ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods linked by the roaring steel subways that carried people to and from their work. Now that era is gone, destroyed as methodically as if someone had taken one of those frighteningly indiscreet air-hammers to it. And there is no work...
Willy van de Kerkhof beat the stingy Argentinian defense along the right side at that point and lofted a neat little cross to Poortmiller, who snapped a header into the top of the goal...
...turn, in its adult stage, to bigger meals?like man? Fortunately, the bug's proboscis cannot penetrate the skin of animal or human, and the adult depends for food only on flower nectar and plant detritus. Thus for mosquito control, as Focks puts it, "the Toxorhynchites is a neat package...
...other day Strauss's heart leaped when he walked into a Watergate penthouse and was instantly convinced he had encountered inflation face to face. Inflation was a handsome fellow in a neat blue shirt, a fine dark suit and wingtips. Inflation had a little bulge over the belt, some eye bags and was mixing his third vodka martini (Smirnoff, 5 to 1). He was savoring the aroma of ribs barbecuing in the kitchen. "By God, it was me!" cried Strauss. "And you," he added to anybody within shouting distance. "I paid $6 for those ribs, and that...