Word: clamps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Parking Office has hired five crimson-clad meter maids in an effort to clamp down on widespread parking violations...
...Even before the Scranton report was made public, the President had taken action on his own last week to clamp down on campus violence. In a move that meshed well with Republican campaign strategy, he asked Congress to add 1,000 FBI men to the existing force of 7,000 and make it a federal crime to bomb any "organization or institution receiving federal financial assistance"-a description fitting almost all colleges...
...representative of the majority of Palestinians. Some would like to see the Israelis give the West Bank Palestinians enough freedom to establish some unified political structure, but they know that if the army gave more leeway, the terrorists would take advantage of it and the Israelis would have to clamp down even harder...
June 15: [After Grigorenko began a hunger strike] they started to force-feed me. They put me in a straitjacket, beat me and choked me. Then they began the painful procedure by putting a clamp in my mouth to keep it open...
...spending have resulted in higher taxes and decreased purchasing power during the past five years. And although he is economically better off than his black counterpart, the white American is still struggling to maintain an adequate income in the face of rising costs and the efforts of corporations to clamp a lid on wage increases. His economic advantage over the black man does not result from any form of mutual antagonism. It results from racist hiring practices and income differentials imposed from above...