Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rules, allowing for higher growth rates without inflation. "The latest numbers suggest the Fed has to be more open to the idea that the economy may have changed fundamentally," says Baumohl. "If they remain locked in to their current thinking, there's a danger that they'll over-tighten the money supply with rate hikes, which could plunge the economy into a recession...
Harvard's lead, at one time four goals, was whittled down to one as Brown took advantage of Harvard's fatigue to tighten the score...
...wonder his fellow economists and some politicians have suddenly started to question the emperor of the economy. "You know, we're told to get productivity up. We get productivity up," said an exasperated Senator Paul Sarbanes. "The inflation prediction is very good. And yet the Fed is moving to tighten money to slow down the economy." Yes, it is, Senator...
This cycle is likely to tighten the political pincer movement in which the movement for strong U.S.-China relations has found itself. The AFL-CIO and other labor groups have been outspoken in their opposition to China's entry into the WTO, and have placed substantial pressure on presidential candidate and Vice President Al Gore '69 to change his stance. Meanwhile, the far right has focused on China's worsening human rights record; the State Department's annual human rights report used harsher terms to describe China's actions this year regarding political and religious freedoms than in any year...
...Kadiatou Diallo in the courtroom in Albany last week, about as far away as the four white policemen were from her son Amadou when they shot him down as he stood in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building, armed with nothing but his wallet. I watched her jaw tighten when defense lawyer Stephen Worth glared at the Rev. Al Sharpton and declared that but for the "furor created by people who have their own agenda," the cops who fired 41 9mm bullets at her son, piercing his body 19 times, would not be on trial for murder. She remained...