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According to Rivlin, the energy to resolve such issues as teen pregnancy and violence in the streets must come from greater community concern and involvement...
...Rivlin pointed to peace, a high level of employment, cleaner air and water, prompt federal relief for disasters and stable financial institutions. Given all these positive features of society, Rivlin said that the federal government has already fixed most of the problems that it has the power...
...Alice M. Rivlin, appointed yesterday to the Federal Reserve Board, told an audience of 200 at the Kennedy School last night that the federal government has done almost all it can to alleviate the problems that many Americans face today...
Because many Americans want to avoid aggressive intervention by the federal government, Americans must work harder to resolve social issues on their own, said Rivlin, who has served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for most of President Clinton's administration...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Ending weeks of speculation, the White House announced that President Clinton will nominate Alan Greenspan to a third term as Federal Reserve Chairman. The President also chose White House budget director Alice Rivlin for the number two position at the Fed, and economist Laurence Meyer to fill the third vacant spot on the seven-member board. The choice to renominate the highly popular Greenspan was a difficult one for a President frustrated by Greenspan's refusal to lower interest rates for fear of causing runaway inflation. Clinton has pushed hard for a lowering of rates...