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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combination of Gia Johnson's hustle, Jeanne Piersiak's slide tackles and flying head shots, and Sara Fischer's tenaciousness kept the Dartmouth offense from penetrating past Harvard's halfbacks and taking a single shot on net during the first half...
...political memoir of world events for the lay person. The excerpt, void of political jargon, punctuated by imagery and vivid characterizations of political figures, moves along like a well-written novel. I only wish my college history textbooks were written in this fashion. Who says that past political events have to be flat...
...lately they have been increasing dramatically as a result of the rising cost of imported oil. Today they form a $600 billion money mountain in Europe as well as in the Caribbean and other offshore tax havens, where they have escaped the control of the Federal Reserve. In the past, when the Fed tried to curb the pace of business?and inflation?by limiting the supply of money, banks were able to circumvent this tightening by obtaining Eurodollars. The 8% reserve requirement will discourage this by making that money more costly for the banks to borrow, since they cannot lend...
...government leaders throughout Europe and bankers and businessmen around the world, the Volcker package was more than just decisive. It made basic monetary sense, something that foreigners have come to long for in the White House's increasingly ineffectual inflation fight. In the past year, not only have prices throughout the economy surged into double digits and stayed there, but the Administration's chief weapon in the struggle, its year-old voluntary wage and price guidelines program, has proved hopelessly inadequate to the task...
Demand for credit ballooned. In the past four weeks alone, loans to business jumped at a rate of 23%, while the commercial paper market, which is where big corporations trade megabuck lOUs back and forth among themselves, leaped by an astonishing...