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Fed

(= Federal) any federal law-enforcement officer (= Federal Reserve) the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply

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well reared nourished having food brought up

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Simple sentences

I am fed up with this wet weather.
Have you fed the dog yet?
I'm fed up with English.
I'm fed up with her complaints.
He fed the horse.
I'm fed up with him!
I'm fed up of waiting!
I'm fed up with the way you've been behaving.
I am fed up with Tom.
Some people might already be fed up with Tom, but I am still mesmerized by that guy.
I'm fed up with your constant complaining.
You bit the hand that fed you.
I am fed up with your nonsense.
Peter was fed up with childish girls and wanted to meet a really mature woman.
It was not until the baby was fed that he stopped crying.
I'm fed up with this wet weather.
I'm fed up with this weather.
The Amazon is fed by a large number of tributaries.
Tom fed his leftovers to his dog.
The data has been fed into the computer.
Have you fed the dog?

Movie subtitles

Russian prisoners in Japan are fed better than we are!
Listen, I'm getting fed up on these rubber checks bouncing in.
I'm fed up.
I'm fed up!
Have you got any milk-fed chicken?
The jury is fed up the way you've kept them in the dark.
A corn-fed bohunk like that falIing into the Semple fortune is hot copy.
Did you think how many families could have been fed. on the money you pay out to get on the front pages?
I'm fed up with this whole thing.
How it rewards me, this ungrateful monstrosity that I've combed and fed for 50 years.
I've been fed up for six months.
Aren't you fed up with a guy like me?
We are fed up with wars, we are busy with other matters.
There. He's fed.
So, Hubert, you want to bite the hand that fed you?
You want to bite the hand that fed you?
Russian POW's in Japan are fed better!
It's nice to hear French music once in a while, isn't it? Yes, people must be getting fed up with jazz.
Oh, yeah! We weren't paid there either, just fed.
I'm fed up with waiting. The makeup is nice.
I like theater, but I'm fed up!
Hey, maybe he fed us a fairy tale.
And I want you to know, I'm fed up on your alibis.
You have fed them this hope. when you have known all the time that I have no wish to gratify it.
The public's fed up with those mangy, toothless, moth-eaten lions that he's been fighting with.
Suddenly I'd get angry and fed up to here. and I'd hit her.
As for you, look after my friends and see that they're fed well.
Fed up of taking care of him, the kidnapper is going back where he got him.
You've fed me enough liquor.
There! I've fed the dog, the chickens and the rabbits.
I'm fed up with hoofing in shows.
I was properly fed up at Oxford.
You know me, have a thing a little while, get sort of fed up with it.
Oh! I'm fed up!
Fed up!
You - are you fed up, or not?
Say, I'm getting pretty fed up with him.

News and current affairs

Only in mid-August did the Fed hint that interest rates might be cut.
The informal and unofficial rationale leaking out of the Fed for its inaction had two parts.
Second, short-term interest rates were so low that additional cuts would spook the financial markets: if even the Fed thought conditions warranted cuts, the argument went, businesses would respond not by increasing their investments but by reducing them.
The Fed's judgment appeared to be that it was largely (if not completely) powerless: it had done all that it could, and the levers of monetary policy were no longer strongly connected to determining the level of economic activity.
The second was the decade of successful business-cycle management by Alan Greenspan's independent, apolitical, and technocratic Fed during the 1990s.
The only way, he says, for the Fed to have kept stock prices in reasonable equilibrium ranges in the late 1990's would have been to raise interest rates so high that they hit the real economy on the head with a brick.
Romney has said that he would not reappoint Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman (likely candidates: economists Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw, John Taylor, and Martin Feldstein).
Should not the Fed step in and replace them with its own purchases of long-term US Treasury bonds, thereby keeping long-term interest rates at a level conducive to full employment?
So, while the additional liquidity injected into the financial system by the Fed may have prevented a meltdown, it won't stimulate much consumption or investment.
China, for example, is worried that the Fed's stimulus will increase its domestic inflation.
Of course, a US recession will also bring further Fed interest-rate cuts, which will exacerbate problems later.
The protests are clearly the result of ordinary citizens becoming fed up with corruption, the lack of any semblance of rule of law, and arbitrary treatment.
A key question is whether the Palestinian masses, fed up with their leadership's bickering, corruption, and incompetence, could make their wishes known to find an end to a conflict that has cost them so much.
The likelihood that the Fed would have to take drastic steps to curb galloping inflation, together with the effects of the 1979 oil crisis, made a serious recession quite likely.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the political extremes has fed into mainstream political discourse.
To this, international finance economists respond that the Fed does not have the power to do so.
When forced to choose between full employment and price stability, the international finance economists say that the Fed will choose price stability, because its institutional memory of the 1970's, when inflation ran rampant, remains very strong.
As serious as these concerns may be, they overlook what could well be the greatest flaw in the Fed's unprecedented gambit: an emphasis on short-term tactics over longer-term strategy.
Blindsided by the crisis of 2007-2008, the Fed has compounded its original misdiagnosis of the problem by repeatedly doubling down on tactical responses, with two rounds of QE preceding the current, open-ended iteration.
Thus, the Fed is focused on cleaning up after a crisis rather than on how to avoid another one.
The Fed cut interest rates in response to the 2001 recession.
The fact that the Fed responded quickly prevented the 2001 recession from worsening.
People have finally come to understand that anti-Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively cutting interest rates to try to stave off a recession.

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