Word: crimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some lawmakers have made vacation plans for the week between Christmas and New Year's Day and do not plan to cancel them, a move that could crimp efforts to bring a tax increase bill to the floor by the year...
...places, in most times, marriage has been a practical arrangement. Those who scoff at matrimonial ads in Indian papers may have few qualms about placing SWM notices in their local tabloids; a blind date is only an arranged marriage in potentia. If disease and collision liability have put a crimp in promiscuity, that may be all to the good. But just because love cannot be free, does it have to be so costly...
Since manpower shortages can crimp a company's ability to grow, many businesses have started recruiting as actively as the Army or the Navy does. To attract engineers, Compaq, a fast-expanding computer manufacturer, has chosen the old-fashioned hard sell. For a three-day recruiting drive in Dallas, Compaq sent invitations to 3,000 engineers and blanketed the region with radio and print advertisements. To promote the company's picturesque headquarters, set in a forest in Houston, Compaq imported pine and sweet gum trees, along with park benches and lampposts. The price tag for the extravaganza...
...debates, a numbed voter might rightly ask, "Where was the beef?" About the only beneficiaries of this orgy of oratory were Bush and Jackson. As the Vice President again seems to be turning himself into Mr. Maladroit, it is easy to forget how his hyperaggressive debate posture put a crimp in all the wimp talk. Jackson's dominance of the Democratic debates helped him narrow his credibility gap as a serious contender. There were also casualties from these protracted trials by rhetoric: Babbitt, plagued by near palsied facial contortions, and Hart, who returned to the fray looking like the portrait...
...last year. By reducing taxes while increasing spending, the Reagan Administration has put money into consumers' pockets. And although the U.S. is fighting no wars, Reagan's military buildup has been highly stimulative. Ordinarily, a deficit so large might lead to a steep rise in interest rates that would crimp the economy. But foreign investors and central banks have bought record amounts of U.S. securities, thus helping finance the deficit and keep interest rates under control. Explains Lester Thurow, dean of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.: "As long as the Government has the pedal to the metal...