Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student member says, "What annoys me is the way we found out about it--entirely hearsay. No one bothered to tell us." James Henderson '80, another CUE student member, says the Council vote took CUE by surprise. He says they were led to believe the Council would support their effort to make the existing study abroad plan more flexible. But Henderson says he realizes now the Council "has pulled the rug out from under...
Contrary to Kissinger's pragmatic approach, I think the current Administration's consideration of human rights as a foreign policy is a growing force. Our degree of support for a particular government depends more and more upon its consideration of human rights rather than the type of government...
...bankers last autumn looked at the guidelines scheme, judged it weak and began frantically dumping greenbacks and buying West German marks, Swiss francs and gold. Initially, the November rescue package did stabilize money markets, largely because the Federal Reserve began massively intervening in currency markets to buy dollars and support their value. But inflation kept rampaging domestically, and eventually the dollar began to crumble all over again...
...reserve requirements for offshore bank borrowings?went through smoothly enough, but the third presented a procedural problem. As a revolutionary change in Fed operations, the plan to focus day-to-day attention on actual money creation required not only board approval (which was given unanimously) but the support of the Open Market Committee, which comprises not only the board's governors but also five other representatives from the Fed's twelve regional banks. Just after lunch a conference call was arranged, unanimous support from the governors was secured, and at 2 p.m. both the White House and the Treasury were...
...returned to the New York Fed as its president. In the past year Volcker voted at Federal Reserve meetings for tighter money and was consistently outvoted by his colleagues. Then he got the top job and, with the economy in dire trouble, finally won unanimous support for the measures that caused last week's furor...