Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as Basu's hideous death was added to the soaring number of carjackings nationwide, Congress was meeting to discuss how to clamp down on the crime. But it was little solace to her family and friends, mute with grief and occupied with the chores of loss. At W.R. Grace, supervisor Nicholas Spencer cleaned out Basu's desk, packed up a dozen snapshots of Sarina, collected her books and removed her coat from the back of the office door. In a drawer he came upon what was to have been a midday snack -- an orange and some crackers. Three boxes...
...sexual subtext -- Murphy Brown, out-of-the-closet gay militance, condom distribution in the schools, sexual flamboyance in publicly funded art projects, and so on. Dan Quayle and others working the values circuit like to encourage the feeling that the American id is dangerously seeping up through the floorboards: Clamp down the superego...
...which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
Just what action would be required to reverse the coup was the question addressed by an emergency session of the OAS in Washington. Aristide flew to the U.S. capital and urged the hemisphere's assembled foreign ministers to clamp enough nonmilitary pressure on Haiti to restore him to office. He suggested sending a delegation to Port-au-Prince to tell the army chiefs, led by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras, an Aristide appointee, "that they must immediately leave the presidential palace" or face total isolation. For his part, Cedras claimed he had stepped in only to quiet rebellious troops in what...
...team to enforce regulations that have long been ignored. She fired the entire top echelon of the corporation-minded commerce department and refocused the agency on small-business development and job training. She smacked the insurance industry by temporarily blocking a 26% increase in auto premiums and vowing to clamp down on other "outrageous" rates. Accusing the insurance regulatory board of being too cozy with the firms it is supposed to oversee, she threatened a takeover if two members did not resign. One agreed to step down...