Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair the old ones. In Zambia and Tanzania, locomotives badly needed to haul copper and agricultural produce sit on railroad sidings because no one can fix their hydraulic-brake systems...
...year peak in relation to the West German mark. By the end of the week, a dollar was worth 8.59 francs, 1,700.25 lire and 2.8 marks. The pound cost only $1.40. The dollar's gains continued even though the U.S. Federal Reserve was selling greenbacks to brake the currency's rise...
...first payments were by relatively simple inflation, but when this reached the high levels of the late '70s the Federal Reserve decided to act. The suffering of unemployed millions resulted from this monetary brake of high interest rates. Finally, Americans took a deep breath and conserved fuel. Since 1973 Western industry has achieved a remarkable 31 percent increase in energy, efficiency, and consumption of gasoline has been cut by a comparable amount. Now the U.S. is finally climbing "out of the hole" with one of the most vigorous recoveries ever...
...race in nuclear weapons. Such negotiations cannot be easy, but the effort has to be made. Both in the Soviet Union and in the U.S. the influence of military thinking seems to be in the ascendancy, if for different reasons. Both capitals must find a way to put a brake on the demands of their respective military establishments for the commitment of increasingly massive resources for military purposes...
Empire's security chief snips the brake line on Christian's car and later takes him on a terror ride in an elevator...