Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, according to the Administration's calculations last week, the projected 1979 deficit will be slashed by about $10 billion, to a total of $53 billion, and inflationary pressures will be considerably reduced. In turn, said Schultze, there will be less pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to clamp down on inflation by a further tightening of credit. That same argument was presented to Carter by Reserve Chairman G. William Miller in private pleas for trimming...
This counter-revolution, this quest to turn the clock back to the days before 1969 and preferably before 1960, is not some great conspiracy, orchestrated in University Hall. Rather, an unstated philosophy--clamp down on the students--has spread surreptitiously throughout the ranks of those who run this university, and what appear to be isolated attempts to regain control of this or that aspect of student life are in fact part of a larger pattern involving the whole University...
...pulling strings to win votes and influence people. While Vellucci works to keep his name in the public eye and good food in the stomachs of his supporters, Sullivan plays the cautious, unsensational business executive, trying to rein in municipal spending, draw in more federal funds and clamp down on the city's carefully-watched property tax rate...
Many academics complain that in its enthusiasm for order, the government has been steadily eroding civil liberties. Now, in the face of a real threat from a small band of terrorists, they fear it will seize the opportunity to clamp down on the liberal movement. Says a leftist member of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party: "The country is in political trouble, it is in economic trouble, and it needs some elements to blame...
Safety is not its only problem. This week the U.S. Government will clamp down on Aeroflot's freedom to sell tickets in the U.S. The reason: though Aeroflot has a reciprocal agreement with Pan American, Soviet officials have made it difficult if not impossible for their citizens to get Pan Am tickets for Moscow-New York flights. Adding to Aeroflot's embarrassments, its chiefs have had to announce that the Soviets' new supersonic jetliner, the 1,430-m.p.h. TU-144, will not begin passenger service this year as scheduled; Westerners doubt it will be flying even...