Word: clamps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of events following Inman's speech heightened concern among researchers. That April, the Administration issued an executive order which allowed the government to clamp down on any information that "by itself or in the context of other information could be expected to cause damage to the national security...
...discount rate, the price the Federal Reserve charges mem ber banks for loans, to rise a full percent age point in the next two months. Others contend that since the money supply has been growing within its announced target range of 4% to 8%, there is no need to clamp down...
Washington's worries have been compounded by another ominous development: rising violence by rightist death squads. For the past month the Reagan Administration has stepped up pressure on the Salvadoran government to clamp down on the murderous crews, but last week's signals were confusing at best. First the State Department denied a U.S. visa to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of El Salvador's Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party, some of whose members have been linked to the killings. The next day, however, President Reagan vetoed a bill that would have...
Some raise fears about what the leftists who jeered Weinberger would do if they got power--would they clamp down on the free speech of their opponents? Yet isn't this what Reagan tried to do by insinuating that the Freeze movement is infiltrated by Russian communists? Though he later weakened his stance, the public has a long memory for such charges despite later recantations. (This is the danger of red-baiting...
Rampant misuse and counterfeiting has prompted officials to clamp down on Quaalude. Nine states have banned its sale, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has required Lemmon to cut production from 58 million tablets in 1978 to 7.5 million this year. The Government has also gone after counterfeit Quaalude, which is smuggled into the U.S. in amounts estimated at up to a billion tablets a year. As a result of last week's announcement, the street-corner price of 'ludes doubled to as much as $10 a tablet, in contrast with about 70? in a drugstore...