Word: board
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...grew at an anemic 1.4% rate in the July-September quarter.) The downturn would meet the official definition of a recession, which is at least two straight quarters of falling GNP. The panel said the U.S. appeared likely to resume slow growth by mid-1991 as the Federal Reserve Board lowers interest rates to stimulate business activity. That scenario would amount to a far milder recession than the severe 1981-82 downturn, which lasted 16 months...
Kimberly Carr, 10, of Montgomery, Vt., recycles her garbage and is designing a board game in which the goal is to save the elephants. Elizabeth Bayley, 17, is active in a Seattle-based youth group that organizes tree plantings, stencils storm drains with dump no waste notices and monitors pollution in Puget Sound. Jeremiah Johnson, 10, from Brentwood, N.Y., puts his McDonald's detritus in recycling bins, tells his mother how long it takes each shopping bag to biodegrade and intervenes whenever his younger brother is about to commit an environmental outrage, like pulling the legs off a defenseless...
...many, Willett's words sound like a call to vegetarianism. The meat industry, which has watched sales slip as health consciousness has climbed, was particularly incensed. Nutritionist David Hurt of the National Livestock and Meat Board points out that the study does not demonstrate cause and effect, and that cattle and pigs increasingly are being bred to produce less fatty meat. "Beef is 27% leaner than it was in 1986 and pork 31%," he observes...
...What we are observing," says Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, "is the increasing leisure hours of people moving increasingly toward entertainment. What they are doing with their time is consuming entertainment -- American entertainment -- all over the industrialized world...
...fashionables Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan. Barbara has been visible but never dominating, as Rosalynn Carter sometimes appeared to be. The old pols have always contended that a First Lady could harm but not help a President. Some Republican Party experts, though, believe that if Barbara were not on board, the President's standing would be lower than it is, his leadership less effective...