Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hasn't the Fed officially warned that it has a "bias" toward making money and credit tighter? Yes, allows the board, but the Fed may already have accomplished as much tightening as necessary--or maybe more--by subtle measures. True, it may kick up the "Fed funds" (very short-term) interest rate it controls by a modest quarter percentage point at its rate-setting meeting at the end of June--"just to prove it can do it, for practice," in Farrell's words. But such a move has been so widely expected, and discounted, that board members think...
...crammed with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn rate--the monthly running expenses of an Internet company ticking toward ipo or implosion. For new-media employees, the workday is 16 hours, the workweek seven days. "Cyberspace is rife with sweatshops," says Andrew Ross, director of the American Studies program at New York University. "The problem is, very few people realize it. The glamour of the technology industry carries...
...million exhibit will provide a homey setting for at least 19 gorillas, not to mention small populations of okapi, red river hogs, mandrills, wolf monkeys and about 70 other exotic species. The exhibit is intended not only to attract visitors but also to direct their attention--and their dollars--toward the plight of the animals' native habitat in the Congo basin, an area about the size of Western Europe that finds itself under relentless assault from loggers, poachers and chronic civil unrest...
Thus far only tamoxifen has been formally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for reducing the risk of breast cancer. But ever since preliminary data suggested that raloxifene might also help keep breast cancer at bay, the spotlight has been shifting toward the newer drug. Why? Because raloxifene, unlike tamoxifen, doesn't appear to increase a woman's risk of developing uterine cancer...
...virtual leak. But AIBO can be willful too. His eyes go red if you pat him too hard. If he can't quite reach his hot-pink ball, he will freak out. And if you take the ball away, he pauses for a second before rotating his head toward you with just the right air of indignant menace (eat your heart...