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The Federal Reserve Board comprises seven governors; but, for most of its history, the Board has operated in the shadow of its chairmen, three of whom (Marriner Eccles, William McChesney Martin, and, most recently, Alan Greenspan) served for nearly 20 years.

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For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.

It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

That is the magnitude of the sacrifice that had to have happened in nearly all of our families just for us to be here.

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