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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most accounts, Volcker ranks as the best-known chairman in the Fed's history. His bald pate and halo of cigar smoke became a familiar sight on magazine covers and TV screens, while his name frequently cropped up in everyday household discussions of mortgage rates and car loans. Overseas, his willingness to involve his agency in other countries' economic concerns earned the U.S. large amounts of economic goodwill. Even bankers like former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, who tangled with Volcker on many issues, admired the Fed chief's willingness to do the dirty work of wringing inflation...
...glossy cards on heavily coated paper stock in serially numbered boxes sells for $125.95. Similarly, Fleer has gone upscale with its Commemorative Collectors Edition, encased in elegant gold-lacquered tin and extolled for its "meticulous detail and masterful craftsmanship" (up to $129.95). "There's no end in sight to all the different sets," says Allan Kaye, editor of Baseball Card News, a trade paper. The most novel selling approach may come from Major League Marketing. Its staple issue, Sportflics, features a polarized image process with three sequential action shots of a player on each card. A pack of three cards...
Little relief is in sight for the exhausted residents of the northeastern Heilongjiang province. Light rain and snow, some of it natural, some induced through cloud-seeding techniques, failed last week to quell the blaze. While the construction of firebreaks covering more than 600 miles helped, a 14-mile chain of fires farther west continued to burn out of control. Chinese officials warned that strong winds could fan the embers in smoldering areas. Conceded a gloomy forest ministry report: "The prospect is by no means optimistic...
...polluters of the environment and Wall Street speculators. One 60-second spot contains three references to honesty and truth. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, capitalizing on his Mr. Clean record, tells voters, "Our children have a right to an America where integrity is the watchword. They deserve better than the sight of Wall Street insiders being led away in handcuffs or government officials who use public life mainly to make contacts for private life." Bush, in the first of a series of speeches laying out his principal themes, emphasized similar points, even at the risk of seeming disloyal to fellow Reaganauts...
...down that coast was the course that's taken by Iraqi planes all the time, and they're never, we've never considered them hostile at all," Reagan said. "They've never been in any way hostile. And this was at night, of course, so never had any visual sight of the target. They fired that missile by radar...