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...stubbornly strong growth convinced Robert McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, that larger rate increases may be appropriate this year. McTeer, whose voting term expired last December, had been the only panelist to dissent from Fed tightening in 1999. "I believed, unlike some others, that productivity gains were keeping inflation sufficiently in check," McTeer says. "But as we moved into 2000, the signals from the economy were fairly clear cut. There was little question in anyone's mind that inflationary pressures were building...
...this," says Edwards of the gun issue. "There's a major battle over gun control brewing in the Senate, which was largely spurred on by the Million Mom March. These forums are important for acquainting younger people with the major political issues of the day." She was also a panelist at a TIME/MTV forum on gun control last week at UCLA. For Edwards, whose reporting often takes her among Washington's most powerful figures, it was an opportunity to connect with the next generation of voters, whose influence will increase in the next decade. TIME and MTV and will...
...Throughout our country's history, security agencies have taken actions which, in retrospect, are seen as huge violations of civil rights," said panelist Norm Mineta, who was detained in an internment camp for Japanese residents during the Second World...
...Panelist and state senator Diane Wilkerson, who is the only black member of the Massachusetts state senate, is currently sponsoring a bill requiring officers to record the race of drivers when they are pulled over in order to see the effects of racial profiling on traffic stops...
...Another panelist said she would not date interracially under the premise that dating might lead to marriage and a family...