Word: constrictiveness
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...flooded their economies with dollars and bought up too much of their industries; but now that the dollars are being brought back home, they wonder what they can use for a trading currency. British Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, among others, warns that the present shortage may constrict international trade, upon which much of the world's economic growth depends...
...BRITAIN. The country is living beyond its means in an expansive but troubled economy. Consumers spend freely while prices and wages soar. Government efforts to constrict home consumption have yet to be felt. Result: problems are multiplying for the beleaguered pound. Britain's trade deficit widened to $137 million in May, the highest since November, thus reviving doubts abroad that Britain can squeeze by the fall without another financial crisis...
...pavements. The icicles, sad eyelids of the white-haired residences, weep down the ivy cheeks and in despair cascade in shattering barrages on the innocents below. Minutious capillary streets transmit a filthy umbrous melt to unreceptive veins, unopened sewers, and all along the byways mounds of pablumgrey constrict the traveler from...
...Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in a brilliant, yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles. "If you use the lash," he said, "if you constrict Japanese economic opportunity, you will create a peace that can only lead to bitter animosity and in the end drive Japan into the orbit of Russia...
...symptoms.) In eight months of testing, Narcotics Inspector Fred Brau-moeller and Dr. James G. Terry, an Alameda County medical officer, also noted that Nalline has a telltale effect on the eyes of people to whom it is administered: while it causes a non-addict's pupils to constrict, it causes the addict's pupils to dilat...