Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises, the Hungarian Revolution and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Ike did nothing to stop the Russians in Hungary?there was almost nothing he could do?but he put a fast brake on the European allies. In both instances, his judgment was probably correct. Suez might have been avoided by more astute American diplomacy, however, and the Eisenhower Administration did little thereafter to ease the Arab-Israeli confrontation that even now seriously threatens world stability...
...Rossiter notes, was characterized by "his airy eagerness to meet the age head-on." Instead, Nixon seems to view his office much as Cleveland did, and will probably work to push the country in the direction that he thinks it ought to go-with his foot poised between the brake and the accelerator...
Less Pride. In G.M.'s latest recall, another engineering error involved air brake valve hoses that were placed close to the left front tires on certain highway tractors. The hoses at times rubbed against the tires and wore through, causing brake failure. Chrysler last year mailed new gasoline tank caps to 25,000 of its customers to replace a faulty one that posed a safety peril. The old cap had a rubber seal that, because it tended to swell up and cover the cap's air hole, could have caused the gas tank to collapse...
there are a standard clutch, a brake and an accelerator, a steering wheel and a two-speed forward, neutral and re verse gearshift. Power is supplied by a 12-h.p. lawn-mower engine that runs two hours on a gallon...
...money supply expanded at an annual rate of 8% during the year's first half. Even after the midyear tax increase, the Fed's governors continued to ease credit because, like most other experts, they misjudged how quickly the surtax would begin to brake the economy. In the last three months, the Fed has changed course, holding the increase in the money supply to a moderately constrictive rate of 3.8% a year...