Word: openly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sense, last week's stiff interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve's little known Federal Open Market Committee was a no-brainer, given the still sizzling growth of the U.S. economy. But in another sense, the panel's increase in the so-called federal-funds rate from 6% to 6.5% marked a spectacular wager on your future, with your money, by 10 unelected and largely unknown officials operating behind closed doors. By raising the rate that underpins most other borrowing costs to its highest level in nine years, the committee is hoping--make that praying--to cool the economy...
ERICSSON R380 Under $1,000; available in fall You can make calls in more than 100 countries, then flip it open for a PDA with Web access and voice recognition...
...Oscar-winning actress, accomplished author and spiritually open-minded single woman, SHIRLEY MACLAINE would make an enviable date for any man. But potential suitors whose resumes have not included a stint as the leader of a European realm may find themselves out of luck. In her latest book, The Camino, MacLaine reveals that during a spiritual trek in Spain, she learned that in a former life she and the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had been lovers. She describes the King of the Franks, who died in 814, as a "lusty" man who "loved to swim." As luck would have...
...learn the poses of adulthood, the ones that will do them only so much good as adults. The barely postpubescent girl who flourishes her cigarette at us in a swimming pool looks as if she has already learned the ropes. Whether those are the ropes worth learning is an open question. It may even be the question in the anxious eyes of that little girl wading behind her, the one who could well be a stand-in for all the misgivings we've ever had about the ways of the world...
...unsilence of lambs? 2. Reverse 3. Tommy's gun 4. No. 1 before the German Open 5. Its population has just reached a billion 6. Straphanger's search 7. She and the mayor are separating 8. Sara Jane, who won a delay in her bomb-conspiracy trial 9. Clinton feels yours 10. She, in Cherbourg 11. With it 22. Concrete strengthener 24. Sunshine State city 25. Clinton is seeking to keep his __ license 26. Wallace's state: Abbr. 27. Fiber-glass critter now being seen all over Cincinnati 28. B.O. sign 29. Famous first baseman? 30. A long time...