Word: overshoot
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...growth in the nation's money supply this year has indeed tended to overshoot the targets set by the Fed. But only a small, though growing, group of critics outside the Administration believes the problem is caused by the Fed alone. Within 48 hours the White House was all but disowning Sprinkel's anti-Volcker sniping, and even Regan wound up admitting that the Fed's formally independent status "is a good thing." In actuality, the Federal Reserve Board has traditionally followed the lead of the Administration in power...
...harness tightens over your shoulders, holds you down at the waist. You think you are stopping at 12,000 ft.," wrote British Journalist John Edwards, who was given a demonstration ride in a Harrier last week. In combat, a sudden viff usually causes a pursuing fighter to overshoot. Explains one veteran Harrier pilot: "From being the attacking aircraft, it becomes the attacked...