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...Chairman Alan Greenspan called the U.S. economic outlook "as bright as it has been in decades," but sent the signals investors hate most: the Fed might again take steps to prevent inflation by boosting interest rates. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, trying to stand tall a day after the dollar sank to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen, vowed action if needed to bolster the greenback. Economists said the two men are in a bind: allow the dollar to fall further, and potentially provoking inflation, or raise interest rates and dampen U.S. economic growth...
...Guam has a reef all around it," Cole says. "Myboat got stuck on the reef. I opened the ramp tolet the soldiers out. The water came in, and theboat sank," Cole says. The boat was latersalvaged, he says, because "the water was not verydeep...
...fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...
Even with a Democratic-controlled Congress, Clinton learned in the first 100 days that it takes only 41 unified Senate Republicans to slam the brakes on popular legislation. And they can usually count on a few renegade Southern Democrats to join them. The G.O.P. sank Clinton's $16.3 billion economic- stimulus plan last year, routinely stalled or blocked high-profile nominees and delayed passage of bills like the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady handgun-control bill and a measure to ease voter registration...
...stomach sank. Alexis told us of the overtime finish, of the breakaway goal that beat Aaron Israel, of the crock of a five-minute penalty assessed to the Crimson's Kirk Nielsen late in the game, of Lou Body's back injury that robbed Harvard of a critical defenseman as fatigue became a factor...