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Greenspan's goal is to slow the economy just enough to quell inflationary pressures resulting from torrid growth and rising wages. He pulled it off with a series of rate increases in 1994. Still, economic engineering is inexact. The risk is that he'll overstep, slowing things to the point where consumers disappear, corporate profits tumble and layoffs mount. It's a legitimate fear voiced by a growing number of Greenspan detractors...
...night of the fire, records show the Cambridge Police Department responded to quell a noise complaint at 7:26 a.m.--only four hours after CFD investigated the fire alarm and found the burnt newspaper. At that time, CFD had asked the party be stopped...
...about to take on a much larger peacekeeping challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, leading a Security Council delegation, secured reluctant agreement last week from Congo's warring parties to accept peacekeepers. But the spectacle of Secretary-General Kofi Annan scrambling to quell what he called Sankoh's "flagrant violation" of Sierra Leone's peace accord raised doubts about U.N. efforts anywhere in Africa...
Harvard's architect came to last night's meeting with a slightly revised design for the building, hoping that the new plan for smaller and more vertical windows might quell concerns expressed in previous hearings by giving the building a "less serious feel...
...Earlier this month, when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power, the firm vowed to appeal - an apparent attempt, at least in part, to quell investor concerns over the future of the firm. The appeals process is expected to drag on for at least two years, an eternity in tech time. But on news of the proposed remedy, investor concerns appear to be in full force once again. Before 10 a.m. on Monday, Microsoft had dropped more than 12 dollars per share to $66.63. After steady gainst throughout the second half of last week...