Word: person
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for extra pushups," Jack says. "George is a lazy person. He's really hard to motivate and he's more stubborn than...
Responding to that threat is the job, as always, of Chairman Alan Greenspan and the other governors of the Federal Reserve. As the person in control of the U.S. money supply, Greenspan has the primary responsibility for preventing a price explosion. Last week he seemed to be moving decisively to cool things down by letting interest rates rise. The so-called federal funds rate, the interest charged on overnight loans among banks and the best day-to-day indicator of Federal Reserve policy, inched up from just under 7% to about 7.25%. In response, major banks hiked the prime lending...
...viewed by his staff as an aloof hatchet man who set in motion a painful round of layoffs in 1985. Unsurprisingly, he views himself more sympathetically, as a beleaguered defender of traditional news values. His chief enemy, it seems, was Rather. The anchorman was unfailingly polite and supportive in person, Joyce writes, but campaigned for his ouster behind his back. When the antagonism became clear to Joyce's bosses, there was little doubt about which man was expendable. "There are lots of presidents," CBS Broadcast Group President Gene Jankowski told Joyce. "There's only one Dan Rather...
Strangely, though no other person was in the room, I did not feel alone. It was almost as though a ghostly spirit remained, an unearthly presence some-how connected psychically through ethereal vibrations produced by my callous dismissal of Harvard's financial needs. Almost as though a portal to the next world had somehow been wrenched open, permitting the spirits of the dead to pass through to this plane of existence. Somewhere, lightning crashed...
Though they play different sports, the Collinses do a lot for each other. "When I get down on myself, he's one person I can call up, and he makes me feel better," Colleen says. "He puts everything back in perspective...