Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys" and bar girls, Vietnamese shun heroin, which they regard as declassé and crass compared to opium. Virtually all of it goes into American bloodstreams. In efforts to get Saigon to clamp down on traffickers, the U.S. has already offended the sensitive pride of Vietnamese sovereignty by insisting on stricter customs inspections...
...this does not mean that nothing at all should be done. If some have a right to pornography, others have an equal right not to have it foisted on them. The New York State legislature last week passed a law that, if signed by the Governor, ought soon to clamp down on Times Square. This kind of regulation would not put pornography back under the counter but it would at least remove it from the shop windows and posters. As for obscene mail, another unpleasant invasion of privacy, 500,000 orders have already been received by the Post Office...
...centers of power, see it as a burden rather than an advantage to tack the bill for additional services onto the already strained city budget. To avoid the onus of deleting established and popular services when federal CDA money dries up in 1974, these fiscal conservatives have chosen to clamp down now, by effectively shutting off old programs and enlarging the veto power to prevent new ones...
...told Lash that when the police began to clamp down on security, the typical number of rape attempts dropped rapidly...
...gallbladder operation, he began to feel pains in his lower right abdomen. His physician assured him that his discomfort was normal and would soon disappear. It persisted; more than two years later, an X ray revealed why: Everard's surgeon had failed to remove a hemostat, or surgical clamp, which had lodged in his patient's abdominal cavity. The facts speak for themselves, argued Everard's attorney. They did indeed. Holding that such a condition could only result from negligence, a court duly awarded...