Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inquiries are met with empty references to the "male community," an intellectual version of the "Be home at twelve, Johnny!" that 16-year-olds get from their parents. Behind the parietal regulations, the administrative surrogate for parents, one cannot help but discern the Board of Overseers, waiting to clamp down on any infringement of the peculiar elements of the Harvard tradition that they so disproportionately asteem...
...unfavorable balance of trade can make any country clamp down on expansion. But for Senegal or Malaysia or Iran, trade is doubly important. Since the poor countries have little internal capital to finance development, they depend on foreign trade for money they need for expansion...
...strong signal to break the inflationary psychology which dominates its thinking. Seeds of disaster have been sown." Like many other bankers and economists, Leach insists that both federal spending cuts and a tax increase have become "absolutely imperative" to avoid financial chaos. Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve Board would clamp down on credit. But the Treasury's need to finance at least another $5 billion of federal deficit by year's end-and much more in 1968-locks the Reserve Board in the meantime into a policy of monetary ease. So far this year, the board has stuffed banks...
...authority lies with the national chairman. He appoints 34 (an absolute majority) of the 67-member executive committee. He chooses all members to the convention's committees of resolutions. The number of delegates per state is disproportionate to either population or YR membership. And most important, no one can clamp restraints upon the national chairman and his executive committees during the two years between conventions. In other words, now that the 1961 convention is over, there is no way for YR delegates to prohibit McDonald from using the National Federation, its name, contacts, funds, in order to further...
...carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic's mask...