Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shows. The Government probably will also clamp down on no-shows. As schedules have tightened, passengers have hedged their reservations by making multiple bookings. At some airlines, no-show rates have doubled during peak periods. American has 18,000 no-shows a day, and United counts more than 22,000-10% to 15% of their capacities. The CAB'S remedy may be to require passengers to pay for tickets up to four weeks in advance and then charge penalties of $25 to $100 to passengers who miss their flights. United's Carlson opposes a tough no-show policy...
...require that by 1984 all U.S. automakers increase fuel economy by an average of 50% or more over 1974 models?a move that would surely force a drastic reduction in size and weight unless some radically more economical engine is developed. A number of other bills before Congress would clamp excise taxes on new cars on the basis of weight or horsepower...
...Government accordingly permitted a budget deficit of $14.3 billion in fiscal 1973, and it proved too much of a stimulus for an economy that was already straining close to its limits. The result: a burst of demand-pull inflation and a spate of shortages that forced President Nixon to clamp on another wage-price freeze and institute Phase IV. Had the full-employment target been set higher, the overheated condition of the economy might have been discerned sooner...
...indeed yawns no wider than that, Simon leans toward a kind of semi-rationing: a system that would allot a certain number of gallons of gas a week to each driver (or car) at taxes no higher than those now in effect but would clamp a heavy "excess-use" tax on purchases above that basic limit. The plan has some advantages over outright rationing. It would assure everyone of a basic gasoline supply while permitting people to choose freely how much they really wanted to drive. It would also produce new Government revenues that could be used to fund mass...
...home, coupled with the upward revaluation of the yen, makes manufacturing operations in Europe much more profitable than sending Japanese goods halfway round the world. A second reason for direct investment is that if the European trade deficit with Japan grows much larger, the Common Market may simply clamp on quotas or demand so-called voluntary restraints to keep Japanese goods out. Already those restrictions on Japanese products are much stricter in Europe than in the U.S. Says Michel Carré, a Brussels management consultant: "The Japanese are welcome abroad as investors, but not as pushers of Japanese goods...