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...seen this movie before, and it was called the 1970s. But despite the warning signs out there, don't expect a return to 1970s-style inflation. As long-term interest rates rise, it should cool the economy's bubble-spot, real estate, which will cause consumers to rein in their spending and prevent companies from raising prices too much. Meanwhile, as gas and oil production recover from the Gulf Coast hurricanes, fuel prices should stabilize or even fall...
...compelled speech. But if they take that grant with that condition, they are obligated to that condition,” he said.Greenfield responded to Eastman’s argument with a list of possible conditions he thought the government might freely attach to grants if it were given free rein.“So what’s the next law likely to be?” he asked. “A condition on your student loan that says that you are not to protest on the Iraq War during your time in school. Or a welfare benefit conditioned...
...Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to rein in the chaos. How is he doing on that score...
Donna Smith, 41, of Springfield, Pa., acknowledges that her eating disorder sprang from a need to rein in her sometimes out-of-control life. Smith, a bookkeeper and part-time yoga instructor, had struggled with bulimia as a teenager and resorted to it occasionally as an adult. But the disorder returned with a vengeance three years ago when her estranged father resurfaced after a 20-year absence, then died. Smith coped by resuming her old self-destructive ways. By the summer of 2003, she carried less than 100 lbs. on her 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Only after...
CHARLIE MCCREEVY, E.U. Internal Market and Services Commissioner, declining to rein in the lucrative but controversial industry