Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime upward and upward? We had better quit trying to find alibis and excuses as to why the law cannot be enforced and get down to enforcing it." In one remarkable bit of rhetoric, Louisiana's Russell Long explained why American Bar Association lawyers opposed the attempt to curb the court. "They have a vested interest in crime," said Long. "Why should they give up the tools that liberate all the guilty criminals? They make money out of that." Despite such emotionalism-or perhaps because of it-three anti-court measures carried...
Unless the U.S. can offset this prospective shortfall, it will lead to a rise in the dollar-weakening balance of payments deficit and renewed peril for the free world's monetary and trade system. Chances of improvement seem slim. Congress has shelved the President's proposals to curb tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak...
Uneven Impact. Of course, the optimistic view is neither unanimous nor total. Many experts think that unemployment may jump briefly from its present low of 3.6% to a range of from 4½% to 5%. Painful though that would be to the workers affected, the situation would help to curb inflationary pay increases. Chicago Economist John Langum expects a drop in business inventories, corporate profits, personal income and consumer spending to add up to "a moderate recession." In any case, the impact of peace will hit industries, areas and manpower unevenly. Many industries likely to lose war business-autos, textiles...
During the three weeks since Lyndon Johnson imposed geographic restrictions on the bombing of North Viet Nam as a means to induce negotiations, the Administration has been frustrated on two counts. The North Vietnamese, while benefiting from the curb on raids north of the 20th parallel, have mounted an intensive propaganda campaign designed to denigrate the U.S. peace initiative...
...labor is being lured to other countries, creating shortages at home that will tend to push up wages. Rising private consumption is expected to exert a similar pressure on prices. And so far, at least, the government, which faces an election late this year, has shown little desire to curb its own spending or that of the electorate...