Word: reines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that unfounded fears about fiscal policy were partly to blame for the high interest rates that are the main cause of the current economic crisis. He tried to allay Wall Street worries that the Administration wants to subvert the Federal Reserve Board's policy of keeping a tight rein on the money supply, and thus refuel inflation. After a meeting with Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, Reagan used his press conference to call a halt to recent White House carping about the Reserve Board's independent stewardship of monetary policy. Said he: "I have confidence in the announced policies...
...some urgent and difficult questions about the ugly civil war in El Salvador. Will the latest guerrilla offensive succeed in disrupting and discrediting the elections scheduled for next month? Will the beleaguered civilian President, José Napoleon Duarte, be able to stave off the leftist challenge? Can he also rein in the right-wing military leaders with whom he shares what remains of central power-and therefore with whom he shares responsibility for atrocities committed by the security forces? And what can the U.S. do? Can it simultaneously foster land reform and counterinsurgency, especially when both campaigns are going...
Ronald Lee Fleming, the council's first director and another of a recent book on public art. Says the generation need not convey specific political ideas. But should instill in people certain community values through the built environment [and] rein force people's sense of being together in a place that has history, color and particular meaning...
...economy even lower. Some conservative economists predict that the result of the red ink will be higher interest rates. Says Burton Malkiel, an adviser to Gerald Ford and now dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management: "You have a $100 billion deficit running smack against a tight rein that the Federal Reserve has held on the money supply. That will push up interest rates...
Weinberger denigrated the benefits of detente and called for a buildup of NATO's conventional and nuclear forces; Haig had to reassure allies that the U.S. was still committed to pursuing arms control negotiations with the Soviets as well as upgrading the Western deterrent. Haig also had to rein in Weinberger when he announced, without consulting NATO leaders, that the Administration was planning to produce neutron warheads for eventual deployment in Europe. Haig promised the allies there would be no deployment of the enhanced radiation bombs without full consultations...