Word: clamp
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...Market countries would pay the full 52% U.S. corporate tax on all earnings-less whatever they paid in local income tax. Payment of U.S. taxes could still be deferred in underdeveloped nations, where the Administration wants to encourage U.S. private investment. The Administration bill has three professed purposes: to clamp down on U.S. firms that channel their overseas earnings into foreign "tax havens," to slow the alleged "export of jobs" created by U.S. investment abroad, and to narrow the gap in the nation's balance of payments by restricting the outflow of U.S. investment capital...
Whatever McSween's reasons, by casting his one vote he had given a considerable boost to the Administration's hopes for its farm program, which would clamp such tight production controls on many farmers that they would be little more than the Government's hired hands. House Democrats now think they have enough votes to pass the bill intact. Over on the Senate side, the Agriculture Committee butchered the bill, but Majority Leader Mike Mansfield believes that the Democrats can restore most of the controls before final passage. Because of McSween's vote, said a grateful...
...very presence in Berlin of U.S., British and French troops is illegal; East Germany's Red Puppet Walter Ulbricht, who would get control of Berlin's access routes after any peace treaty, has vowed to stop the exodus of refugees running out to West Germany and clamp down on the city's economy...
...patient's chest was opened along the breastbone. Tubes slipped into both great veins led used blood out of her body to the heart-lung machine. Another tube fed it back into a leg artery. A clamp on the aorta helped to keep the heart and lungs virtually bloodless. Dr. Cooley slit open the main pulmonary artery, found nothing in it. But in the successively smaller branches and in the lungs themselves were at least 18 clots. Dr. Cooley pulled some out with forceps, extracted the others with a vacuum suction tube. He washed out the lungs and squeezed...
...relayed President Kennedy's offer of stopgap credits-reportedly $100 million-to help tide Brazil over its economic crisis. The offer was made just as that crisis was forcing Jânio to order all ministries to cut their budgets 30% within the next two weeks and to clamp down on goldbricking civil servants, many of whom, thanks to political influence, have been allowed to come to the office only once a month to pick up their paychecks. Despite his nation's urgent need, Jânio not only failed to acknowledge Kennedy's aid offer publicly...