Viewpoint: Fed Cuts Discount Rate to Signal Recession Battle
Our view lauds the Federal Reserve for lowering the discount rate from 7 percent to 6.5 percent, signaling urgency in tackling a looming recession. The move aims to revive growth without fueling inflation, aided by the October deficit deal giving the Fed room to maneuver.
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Alan Greenspan
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Gulf
U.S
Congress
Federal Reserve
Greenspan
Forgiveness in Verse A Penitent Columnist Reflects
A reflective year end piece chronicles the columnist’s contrition for errors in past columns. It revisits debates on ecology versus environment and touches on religious terminology, word origins, grammar disputes, and style choices with self effacing humor.
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Florida
Everglades
Opinion page staff roles listed for Aiken Standard
Aiken Standard page four includes the production director business office manager and circulation director credits. The note lists Sue S Brown Elton C Priest and Daniel S Holland among the staff roles.
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Sue S. Brown
Elton C. Priest
Daniel S. Holland
Where Is U.S.S.R. Really Heading
In 1981 and earlier, hard-line elements press Gorbachev to curb reforms. Kryuchkov and Pugo push for order as Shevardnadze resigns, Moldavia is threatened, and Lithuania Latvia Estonia Ukraine watch for moves. The piece weighs the risks of civil conflict and asks where America's interests lie.
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Ristmas
General Jaruzelski
Solidarity
Ayatollah
Brezhnev
Red Army
Afghanistan
Iraq
Soviet Empire
Mikhail Gorbachev
Eduard Shevardnadze
Imre Nagy
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Army
KGB
Moldavia
Romania
Stalin
Hitler
Kryuchkov
CIA
Gorbachev
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Ukraine
Transcaucasian
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Moscow
Leninrad
Europe
Kremlin
U.S
Bavaria
Persian Gulf
Germany
Bush
Urals
High Frontier
NATO
Robert Gates
Blackjack
Soviet Union
Boris Pugo
Boris Gromov
U.S.S.R
Kuwait
America
Life Of Reilly The EPA Chief Faces Policy Twists
Washington. Bill Reilly administrator of the EPA, portrays skepticism and optimism toward ELF risks and the Clean Air Act while debating trash recycling and the Two Forks dam. He warns on environmental tradeoffs, cites Seattle as a model, and eyes methanol as a plausible fuel option amid political pressure and looming reauthorization in 1991.
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Ashington
W Rence
Bill Reilly
Reilly
14Th Street
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington
Jimmy Stewart
Two Forks
Colorado
EPA
ELF
White House
Presidential Council On Competness
Congress
Denver
Federal Reserve
Blackmail Tactics Target Big Business Says Exposé
The piece describes extortion schemes against corporations ranging from monthly payoffs to legal fronts claiming minority or social causes. It notes threats of boycotts, funding anti business groups, and the use of media coverage to mask coercion, citing a Chicago base and Al Capone as a symbol of the era.
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Chicago
al Capone
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John F. Boyette i
Jeffrey 8. Wallace
Melanie L. Arney
Aiken
Jones
Thomas Krebs
Fense Intelligence Agency
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