Word: reporter
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DENVER--Former Sen. Gary Hart, after a series of weak primary showings, has put travel plans on hold and scheduled a news conference, where he plans to call it quits in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a broadcast report yesterday...
...recently released report by an accreditation committee from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges came to the conclusion that while Harvard has a very talented faculty and a gifted student body, both live in different worlds. "Faculty members," the report concludes, "are less accessible to students than we expected and less aware than they ought to be of what is occurring outside their department...
That issue was at the top of the agenda last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan appeared on Capitol Hill to give his semiannual report on monetary policy. In a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, the panel's chairman, opened the proceedings with the statement that he was "troubled by the extent of the political pressure being put on the Fed by the Reagan Administration in this presidential election year." When questioned about such pressure, Greenspan acknowledged that he and other Fed officials had received a letter in January from Michael Darby, the chief...
Proxmire also cited criticism of the Fed in the Economic Report of the - President issued two weeks ago, which was prepared under the direction of Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The report contends that overly tight Fed policies resulting in a rise in interest rates last year were partly responsible for the October stock-market crash...
...exercise field, the group looked like an awkward, overage boot- camp platoon, learning how to bow, count off rapidly and report in a loud voice. "Shouting," says Fujimori, "makes every person know his own force or weakness." Spare time was spent in pairs or small groups shouting recitations and learning the lessons, including the salesman's ten commandments. Among them: "No shilly-shallying. Always be punctual"; "Completing an action without reporting it is worse than not doing it"; and "Promise yourself you will achieve the best results in the shortest time...