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...Andrea Swift, food service supervisor at the college dining halls, said Dining Services had the gate installed to protect the dining hall and the objects inside--including paintings, tables, and the chairs that were all moved to the second floor during a prank last week...
...Swift said her office started planning to install the gate at the beginning of this school year...
Dining Services considered drawings of many proposed gates in search of the design which would best blend in with the stone vault around it and "the feel of the historic building." They decided on a classical iron gate built mainly of vertical bars, said Swift...
...addition to this swift and direct intervention, confidence was maintained by the existence of safety nets and regulatory bodies created during the 1930s, including federal deposit insurance, Social Security and unemployment compensation. There was not a murmur of concern about the banking system since the public assumed, correctly, that the Government was the lender of last resort...
Confidence in our financial markets has been an enormous national asset. It fueled our economy during the past 40 years. At a time when the need for domestic investment is very great, that confidence must be restored. And it can only be restored through swift and strong action by federal regulators, Congress and the White House...