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...bias" toward making money and credit tighter? Yes, allows the board, but the Fed may already have accomplished as much tightening as necessary--or maybe more--by subtle measures. True, it may kick up the "Fed funds" (very short-term) interest rate it controls by a modest quarter percentage point at its rate-setting meeting at the end of June--"just to prove it can do it, for practice," in Farrell's words. But such a move has been so widely expected, and discounted, that board members think it won't ruffle the markets much...
Even more delicious, Gore allies point out, was that Bush gave the Vice President a new opening. At almost the same time as Friday's failed House effort, the Governor signed into law a bill that requires a locality to get approval from the state legislature or attorney general before suing a gun manufacturer. Opponents of the law call it the National Rifle Association Protection Act. Bush supporters argue that the act does not interfere with legitimate gun lawsuits but rather curbs trivial legal action. "If Vice President Gore wants to take the side of frivolous lawsuits, we'll take...
Fineberg, Rudenstine's third provost in eight year, is also mid-sized, skinny and professorial to the point of goofiness...
...know in the years to come my assessment of my professional life will come more into focus and I will awaken many nights with Radcliffe on my mind," Wilson said. "But I know at this point that the most important thing is that Radcliffe is a strong institution...
...Some point to a corporate culture that values profits over safety, with managers skimping on training to save money and intimidating pilots who cancel flights for safety reasons. The pilots? union also says American has only on-again, off-again compliance with federal rules requiring that pilots get at least eight hours of rest in the 24 hours before they complete their flight duty. American Airlines spokesman Chris Chiames told the New York Times his company had no such habits, but his denial surely belongs in the flack hall of fame: "Every day we go out and sell our product...