Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where has the council been while Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and the house masters have been tightening the clamp on alcohol and Harvard's mediocre social life? Why did the group have nothing to say during the past few weeks as some house masters imposed limits on the number of guests students could put up in the rooms they...
...draw people out of excessive self-interest, their existence a statement of need. A dog's eyes search your face for a mystery as deep as God, asking nothing and everything, the way that music operates. He hopes that you always love music, even the noisy boredom you clamp to your ears these days, while he harbors the prayer that in later years will follow Vivaldi and Bix Beiderbecke. If you learn to love jazz, you will have a perpetual source of joy at the ready. Jazz is serious joy, much like yourself...
...City is afraid that the spreading mess of Guinness will force the Conservatives to clamp down on the number of mergers, which has gone up 160% in the past three years. Snaps Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "This endless shuffling about of assets has done nothing to improve the basic efficiency and capacity of British manufacturing." Already, takeover fever has abated. "There are no megabids running at all," says Kenneth Morton, an executive director with the Hill Samuel Group. "There's no doubt that people's attitudes have changed." Last month BTR, one of Britain's most aggressive raiders, backed...
...still, she said, the nature of the punishment Brown gives the students is important. "There's been a trend in university policy. The university is trying to clamp down on student activism," she said. "Last night's [hearing] was just another example of that...
...week's end it was clear that the government intended not only to clamp down on new demonstrations but sharply limit future political discussion and purge officials who have gone too far in advocating reform. Rumor had it that at least one official had already been removed: Fang Lizhi, a vice president of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, who has strongly supported demands for more democracy. The biggest loser, however, may be Politburo Member Hu Qili, a leading advocate of political reform, whose position as a likely successor to Hu Yaobang as Communist Party General Secretary seems...