Word: braking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, the crisis had been the product of massive miscalculations. Nasser, who has repeatedly and publicly warned that the Arabs are not yet strong enough to take on Israel, made the first mistake by signing a mutual defense pact with his fellow leftists in Syria. His intention was to brake the schemes of the Damascus regime to precipitate war with Israel at any cost, but the Baathists proved impossible to restrain; they kept up irksome terrorist attacks over the Israeli border. Stung by these attacks, Premier Eshkol made the second error by threatening war against Syria to stop them. Charging...
Basic to the situation is the fact that Western Europe's two biggest economic powers, West Germany and Great Britain, find themselves in slumps at the same time. Hoping to combat inflationary pressures and reverse nagging balance-of-payments deficits, Bonn and London deliberately moved last year to brake domestic demand, in Germany's case mainly by tightening credit, in Britain's by means of last July's sweeping price-wage freeze...
...consensus from leading economic experts on whether he should raise taxes: he insisted on signed memos of opinion from every person he consulted, both inside and outside the Administration. All agreed that a tax boost was in order. Some non-Administration economists argued that the crimp on income could brake the business slowdown to the danger point. But Johnson also asked for an average 20% rise in Social Security benefits. It was an unexpectedly large increase that will pump some $4.1 billion into the economy and may in fact bring enough new money into the market place to offset...
...within an inch of the track, so that when the car skims along at 150 m.p.h. and the track comes rushing at the spectator's face, he may suffer the illusion that he is right there in the car, and that if he doesn't find that brake pedal pretty damn quick he's never going to make the next corner. And there is one phony but heart-stopping crash in which a racing car leaps off the road surface at better than 100 m.p.h., turns sideways in the air and for one long, insanely impossible instant...
...bring it up to date, the Bushmaster will sport more powerful engines, enlarged cockpit windows, a lighter and stronger aluminum-alloy skin, a foot-operated hydraulic replacement of the old Tri-Motor's hand-operated "Johnny Brake," a larger stabilizer and a dorsal fin to reduce yaw, modern trim tabs, and interior rather than exterior control cables...