1.   And although he votes loyally with Greenspan on interest rate policy, he has never established a strong public reputation as an inflation fighter.

2.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer said the central bank left rates unchanged to uphold its credibility as an inflation fighter.

3.   Greenspan continues to dominate policy-setting sessions and has been challenged only occasionally by the hard-line inflation fighters within the Fed system.

4.   If not, it would lose credibility as an inflation fighter, and investors and businesses might feel it was insufficiently guarding against inflation.

5.   In his nine and a half years as the chairman, Greenspan has built a reputation as an uncompromising inflation fighter.

6.   Much of the credit, he says, goes to Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, who has been a vigilant inflation fighter.

7.   The newspaper always has been a big inflation fighter.

8.   The Web, as columnist Cramer points out, is the greatest inflation fighter of all time.

9.   What has often kept the inflation fighter from cutting interest rates is a concern about rising prices, which often accompanies brisk economic growth.

10.   While his predecessors as vice chairman, David W. Mullins Jr. and Manuel H. Johnson Jr., were mainly inflation fighters like Greenspan, Blinder provides a different counterpoint.