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...Carter does not have stand-by power to impose them. The overwhelming majority in Congress still opposes such measures. Most labor leaders and business executives would undoubtedly rush to post "anticipatory" increases in wages and prices if Congress seriously debated granting the President authority to impose controls. Another constraint might be White House resignations. Anti-inflation Adviser Alfred Kahn favors some credit controls but says he would quit if wage-price limits were introduced...
...State Legislature passed a bill restricting state funding for abortions, leaving poor women without the freedom to decide whether or not they would like to have abortions. The bill, which was sponsored by state representatives Ray Flynn and Charles Doyle, is damaging and reprehensible because it places an economic constraint on a private and moral decision...
...that traditionally have ordered jazz, leaving each member of a group free to improvise both notes and tempo. It is intense sounding and often looks to the emotional power of African music for its antecedents. Says Taylor: "One of the things I had to divorce myself from was the constraint or control that European music imposes, that we will do this or that. No, no, no, I say to myself. I must like my music. It must sound good...
...learned about Southern California, it's only good for--tops--100 intrinsically funny words (like "Hot Breakfast," "Burbank," "Mather House," "Oxnard" and "premed") which can therefore be thrown right at audiences without the benefit of a joke-vehicle (i.e.--story-cum-punchline) and still elicit Big Laffs. Given that constraint, and given the fact that it was largely ignored by the Pudding People this year, the show couldn't help but become the Leviathan that almost did me in; you really gotta learn how to stop just before Doc Severinson and the NBC Orchestra start playing...
...Technically, this means movements are linked without transitions, or that, in Brown's words, "the preparation comes from the momentum of the preceding move." Some consider this convention of performance style among the avant-garde dehumanizing. On the contrary, it seems that performers often impose on themselves an impersonal constraint so that personal statement oozes through the pores of the discipline...