Word: chairman
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...would take a wildly indelicate Fed chairman to make a policy change at a time like this, and indelicate is one thing Alan Greenspan is not. Surprising absolutely no one, Greenspan's FOMC board announced at 2:15 Wednesday that it was leaving interest rates alone. Even its bias - slightly worried about inflation, but not overly - will remain unchanged until its December meeting, and few expect the Fed to do anything then either. In the middle of a wild and crazy fourth quarter for investors, politicians and everybody with a healthy interest in where America is headed, the economy...
...would take a wildly indelicate Fed chairman to make a policy change at a time like this, and indelicate is one thing Alan Greenspan is not. Surprising absolutely no one, Greenspan's FOMC board announced at 2:15 Wednesday that it was leaving interest rates alone. Even its bias - slightly worried about inflation, but not overly - will remain unchanged until its December meeting, and few expect the Fed to do anything then either. In the middle of a wild and crazy fourth quarter for investors, politicians and everybody with a healthy interest in where America is headed, the economy...
...Tuesday, Fox news chairman Roger Ailes, whose résumé includes stints as former president Bush's campaign strategist, was struggling to defend his decision to hire George W. Bush's first cousin to run Fox's election night decision desk. The network, which is part of Rupert Murdoch's international media conglomerate, proudly presents itself as an alternative to "mainstream" news outlets - thinly veiled conservative code for "liberal media...
...would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...surviving member of the "Hollywood 10" group of writers, directors and producers blacklisted in the 1940s for refusing to answer questions posed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When asked if he was a communist, Lardner said, "I could answer that question the way you want, Mr. Chairman, but if I did, I'd hate myself in the morning." He served nine months in prison in 1947 and didn't receive credit for any screenplays until 1965. He won an Oscar in 1942 for Woman of the Year...