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Four decades just could not be swept away overnight. When the first Communist campaign caravan rolled through Ciudad Real, old women crossed themselves. "As far as they were concerned, we were people with horns on our heads and bombs under each arm," said a party worker. "That's all they had ever known." While leftist parties did open some offices in villages, they made few converts. In one pueblo, a leftist coalition called a rally and found exactly two people in attendance. "Comrades," began one of the speakers, whereupon the two men stepped forward and identified themselves as Civil Guards...
...stupid but at that time we never doubted that that was the way things were--it really is ludicrous," Brody recalls. The rules weren't always strictly observed, although Brody doesn't recall any occasions when either he or any of his friends kept a woman in the dorm overnight. But, he says, "you could screw in the afternoon and that was happening a lot. We also had a car and so there was always the back seat." Trustman says his whole generation "learned to be sexually active between 6 and 8 p.m. The style was first to make love...
This directive presents a range for the growth target for the money supply in the month ahead; it also gives the desired range for the so-called federal funds rate. This is the interest rate that one bank charges another for the overnight loan of money the borrower needs to have as reserves. The open-market desk manipulates the federal funds rate by buying or selling Government securities. When it buys securities, the cash it pays goes on deposit with a commercial bank, thus effectively adding reserves to the banking system and lowering the federal funds rate. Selling securities draws...
Some of the irritants of the occupation are relatively mild. West Bank Arabs must have special blue license plates on their cars, carry special identity cards that list their religion, and notify local police if they remain in Israel overnight. They are singled out for close questioning at the numerous floating roadblocks that Israeli authorities have set up in the West Bank...
...Freeman says. There is widespread agreement that U.S. jobless youths do not feel permanently shut out of the economic system, as do many of their counterparts in Europe, nor do most of them feel alienated from the work ethic. Thousands of New York City youths stood in line overnight last month to sign up for federally funded summer jobs. As M.I.T. Economist Michael Piore puts it, "In Europe, the young get mad about unemployment. Here, they just get scared...