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...Target. Thus the independent Fed is sure to come under heavy White House prodding to pump out enough money to bring interest rates down again. The Federal Reserve governors have already taken one step to resist such pressure. In recent months the board adopted a new operating method to influence the money and credit available to the economy. The method focuses on a new target: bank reserves against private deposits. In effect, this tactic emphasizes new precision in the control of vast aggregates of money and puts less stress on influencing specific interest rates. Thus the board is purposely paying...
...finally resist the temptation to say it? No, one cannot. Dr. Peter's sequel has proved the Peter Principle...
...Last 18 minutes of Duck, You Sucker, which has received far more acclaim. Its full of cliches, but the filmmakers are cynically conscious of them. Robert Mitchum is his typical boozing self, Ken Hutchinson is a fine hotheaded Irishman (where has he been hiding all these years?) Who are resist any Western set in Mexico and dealing with disaffected bandits and revolutionaries? Last day at the SAXON...
When a Muscovite out for a Sunday afternoon drive in the family Zhiguli comes to a thickly wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Moscow, he had better resist the temptation to park his car and stroll among the pines and birches. Just to remind him, a NO STOPPING line is painted along the side of the road, TRANSIT ONLY signs prohibit him from pausing in villages along the way, and NO ENTRY notices block all side streets. There is also a forbidding 10-ft. green wooden fence, set back from the road and stretching for miles. If, despite these...
...rounds of artillery, mortar and rocket fire hit an area that can easily be walked across in ten minutes. Said one U.S. adviser: "Those were days when healthy men were taking antidiarrhea tablets to keep from having to go outside. Nature's calls seemed a lot easier to resist...