Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scale to which it has long been accustomed as a world power-and it has been notably unsuccessful in the postwar era in selling more than it buys abroad. No sooner does the economy get going than imports rise, the balance of payments goes sour, and London must clamp down at home through controls and deflation while it borrows abroad to cover its payments debts in the interim. Such is the "stop-go" method resorted to by Tory and Labor governments alike for 20 years...
...starter, Balaguer announced that he would halve his own salary to $750 a month, cut the pay of all other government workers, and clamp a ceiling on pensions. To fight corruption and inefficiency in government operations, Balaguer also set up a central auditing operation, banned strikes by government workers, and promised that politicians would be weeded out of government industries (mainly sugar) and replaced by technical...
...strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent home for about three months to see whether his system can adjust to the presence of the foreign tissue. He takes with him a metal clamp that he uses periodically to shut off the blood supply from one end of the finger roll. Once the implanted finger becomes adjusted to a one-way blood supply, the patient goes back to the hospital...
...horn buttons will work, he said, but it can cause sores on the mother cow's udder after nursing. Various gouges and electric burners are also effective, but Hatch advocated a saw. "There may be lots of bleeding," he told students. "If there is, you can clamp the artery. Pull it out and take hold of it. It looks like a piece of spaghetti." Outside, the students went to work on eight calves. "Careful there now," Field Instructor John Kennedy coached. "Start your saw back a little more-that's right-in the hair...
...weirdest of all of Guest's gadgets. On a 15-ft. pipe base not unlike the landing gear of a small helicopter, CURV mounts four long red ballast tubes for depth control, three electric propulsion motors, lights, sonar, film and TV cameras. Controlled from the surface, it can clamp a detachable claw onto objects up to 3 ft. wide, then back away leaving the claw and a buoyed line attached. Though it is normally used to retrieve spent torpedoes, Guest acted on a hunch and ordered CURV flown out from California...