Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...braked. Decreasing demand for petroleum can easily stampede OPEC's members into a back-stabbing rush to hang onto their customers by offering all sorts of discounts and deals. Already there are signs that this year's 100% increase in crude oil costs is beginning to crimp cartel sales. U.S. oil imports dropped by 8.5% during November to 7.9 million bbl. daily, suggesting that the market is beginning to loosen...
...solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar can supply only a small fraction of the nation's energy needs, while nuclear power remains necessary. Most economists say that his call for a constitutional amendment to force a balanced budget would gravely crimp the Government's ability to function...
...assume that the Fed's orchestration of the highest interest rates in five years would alone be sufficient to discourage borrowing and spending. Through the first half of 1979, business was actually slowing somewhat as a result of bad winter weather and the gasoline squeeze, which together put a crimp in consumer purchasing. The Fed even began to fear that its seemingly draconian interest rates were pushing the economy headlong into recession...
Though higher interest rates are bound to crimp housing, pinch installment loans, and put a drag on sales of big-ticket items like cars, which are normally bought on credit and not with cash, most economists continue to agree that the economy is not about to drop into a free-fall plunge as it did after the oil-price shocks of 1973 and 1974. For the most part, the members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict a moderately deeper recession than envisioned in their earlier forecasts of September; but they foresee no economic tailspin, in part because the strength...
...recession will be fairly mild and brief, and the market will be slowed only temporarily by the crimp that a downturn would put in corporate earnings...