Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greenspan can also claim credit for knowing when to declare victory and go home. It is unclear whether he ever seriously thought inflation could be brought down to zero. But he seems to realize that the present rate of about 2% is close enough to fulfill his stated ambition to keep price increases so small that they do not drive business decisions--that nobody feels impelled to buy or build before the price goes...
...like deep cuts in strategic missiles and troops, were swiftly explained away as the musings of a statesman. Yet even his own staff fretted over other bizarre pronouncements. During a very successful trip to China, Yeltsin's hosts politely urged him to stay. Impossible, he replied, according to reporters present: "I have food for only two days." A person who works closely with the presidential team feared that polls would start picking up signals that people think, as he put it, "the president can't think straight...
...approximately 25 members present elected Stacy M. Abder '99 and Mia Bagneris '99 co-presidents: Jennifer B. Landry '99 secretary; Sonu Gupta '00 treasurer, and Larissa T. Jester '99 and Katie R. Mannheimer '01 publicity chairs...
...feeling in the region is they?d prefer to see things calm down despite Iraq possessing biological weapons, rather than allow those weapons to become the reason for further conflict,? says Dowell. Which means the outcome of the present standoff may be even more inconclusive than the resolution of the Gulf War itself...
...most frightening scenes in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol occurs when the Ghost of Christmas Present reveals to the yet unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge two ragged and wolfish children--a boy and a girl, cowering in the folds of his robe. Even flint-hearted Scrooge is intimidated by the sight of them: "Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing...