Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people into the streets last Monday, three party secretaries signed a declaration promoting a more open dialogue. In Dresden party functionaries met with 20 opposition representatives. Encouraging as these moves may be, there is always the possibility of a reversal. If the state decides to clamp down, it is hard to predict whether the opposition forces will turn out to be marathoners, like the Poles, or easily winded sprinters, like the Panamanians...
BUSINESS: A drive to clamp down on auto exhaust...
...former NBC News president Larry Grossman--a visiting lecturer at the Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public policy--said a government clamp down on visas had also kept South Africa out of the news in the U.S. He added that he thought recent action in the African nation was "no longer newsworthy...
...unclear whether the decision will have a broader effect on Catholic higher education in the U.S. Curran thinks it might, "given the current atmosphere" of John Paul's campaign to clamp down on errant theology teachers in seminaries and universities. But Sister Alice Gallin of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, emphasizes Catholic University's unusual status and expects no spillover effect. She adds, however, that the case is "a warning that faculties must protect academic freedom...
Another issue then came to the forefront. Even Bush and his advisers had been concerned about whether Tower could be expected to clamp down on defense spending. After all, he had enthusiastically advanced Ronald Reagan's $2.2 / trillion arms buildup. Prepped by Rhett Dawson, one of his former committee aides who had moved to the Reagan White House and was tapped by Bush to be Secretary of the Army, Tower impressed the President-elect with a plan to implement neglected Pentagon reforms advocated in 1986 by the Packard commission...