Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the National Guard may still close armories used for recreational purposes, it will not clamp down on the shelters, Grossman said...
...nascent service-charge movement began with Congress, which started in 1982 to clamp down on one of the country's biggest tax dodges: the failure to report billions of dollars in tips. Laws now require restaurateurs to monitor waiters' tips for the Internal Revenue Service, as well as pay federal unemployment and Social Security taxes on such income. "It's a lot of extra work. We have to spend time keeping records because the Government doesn't want to," said Don O'Neill, the owner of the Spring House restaurant in Pittsford...
...have no plan to clamp down and squash the crits," Clark said...
...York City's health commissioner has his way, there will soon be a mug shot on file of every American pit bullterrier in the Big Apple. Hoping to rid New York of a canine breed favored by dope dealers because of its alleged propensity to clamp its powerful jaws on humans, Commissioner Stephen Joseph has proposed to the city's board of health that pit bull owners be required to have their dogs tattooed, muzzled in public, insured for a minimum liability of $100,000 and, yes, photographed for city records. If Joseph's proposal becomes part of the city...
...biggest fear among law-abiding Chicago traders and brokers is that evidence of shady dealings will inspire Washington to clamp down on the freewheeling markets. Already Texas Democrat Kika de la Garza, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, plans to investigate the Chicago exchanges. Congress could decide to beef up the relatively tiny agency that oversees the Chicago markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or transfer the authority to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Figuratively speaking, at least," laments a futures broker, "there'll be police in the pits from...