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...doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this would relax the arterioles. It did but only temporarily; the arterioles soon responded to hormonal signals to constrict...
...labor wins big wage boosts, Nixon will be confronted again with the specter of inflation. He would have to make an unhappy choice: either he would have to impose a wage freeze and forfeit labor support that he has so assiduously cultivated, or the Federal Reserve Board would constrict the supply of money for loans, thus slowing down the economy and risking another recession...
...major practical problems in raising a young baby, Skinner reasoned, is the simple one of keeping it warm. The infant is usually covered by half a dozen layers of cloth?shirt, nightdress, sheet and blankets?that not only constrict movement and cause rashes, but sometimes even pose the danger of strangulation. Then there is the mother's labor in dressing and undressing the child, plus the considerable expense of buying and laundering all those clothes and blankets...
...since Hair made nudes a commercial fad, one sexual taboo after another has been shattered. The logical end was Che!, which promised copulation onstage. It does not happen. The actors fake it. The uninhibited cast has reached the pitch of passion in rehearsals, but performances before an audience obviously constrict the actors. Even so, what does happen would fill an animated sex manual. Conjecture one hour and forty minutes during which each orifice and organ of the male and female body is employed in all possible combinations...
Besides raising the cost of money, the Federal Reserve has been acting to constrict the nation's money supply. For much of 1968, the Reserve Board allowed the money stock to grow at an annual rate of 11%. But in the four weeks ended Jan. 1, the money supply rose at a 3.6% annual rate. By any measure, that amounts to a significant-if so far brief-squeeze...