Word: clamping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aspect of Soviet life that remains the same is the government's attitude toward intellectual dissent, equated with disloyalty. The Jewish question festers, though a clamp on immigration to Israel that was in force when I left two years ago has since been eased. Some Jews, like the outstanding poet, Joseph Brodsky, are being pressured by officials to go to Israel, although they prefer to remain in Russia. Still, there are glimmerings. The controversial film Andrei Rublyov, based on the life of the 15th century monk who founded a new school of icon painting, was recently released after...
...large majority was a massive expression of public confidence in Lynch. The Prime Minister, who is no friend of the I.R.A., might now use his added political stature to clamp down on the organization, whose officers in Dublin direct the terror campaign in Northern Ireland. That could conceivably lead to closer cooperation between Dublin and London in seeking a long-range political solution to the troubles of Ulster...
...separate or disengage from the wheel, or to jam, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. Thus far, 16 such failures have occurred, causing one injury. Ford, still uncertain about the cause of the trouble, does not plan to replace the bearing unit. Instead, dealers will install a clamp on the axle both to alert and protect the driver; the clamp will increase the screeching noise that occurs when unusual wear begins and will hold everything together for at least 100 miles...
...easily set off still another monetary crisis, one which would make Europe's brief speculative spree last May seem mild by comparison. Already there are enough dollars circulating in the Eurodollar market to empty out Fort Knox several times over. The deeper danger is that European governments will clamp stern controls on the international exchange of money-particularly on the inflow of dollars-and that the U.S. will put equally rigid controls on the import of goods. In Washington, there is much discussion of imposing surtaxes on imports. Any of these steps would damage the system of free trade...
...section of Bonn, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel argued that a floating mark would foul up the Common Market's system of farm price supports, which assumes set relationships between the currencies of the Market's six member nations. Bundesbank President Karl Klasen contended that Germany should instead clamp on tight exchange controls in order to stop the inflow of unwanted dollars. The government could, for example, forbid citizens to borrow abroad and order commercial banks not to pay interest on dollar deposits...