Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make his spending and deficit forecasts seem smaller than they will actually turn out to be. Mills insists that the Administration must hold the line on expenditures before he will accept a tax increase. The G.O.P. position, maintains Republican Leader Gerald Ford, is still that the best way to curb inflation is to cut spending. Neither Mills nor Ford has offered any proposals for retrenchment...
...blameless-the company need not pay him a cent. Indeed, the worse the accident-a ten-car chain collision, for example-the more difficult it usually is to pin sole blame on one driver and reimburse anyone. If a driver has a heart attack and his car mounts a curb, hitting ten pedestrians, who is at fault? No one. Who gets paid...
...would be fought hard by the oil industry, which aches to repeal the present gas tax. For another, it might be so financially painless that U.S. drivers would tend to worry less about their liability for accidents. And Government insurance might become a political football as legislators vied to curb needed rate raises...
...they're planning for the trip, which keeps excitement and enthusiasm building up." Now, for the 269 members who joined Club Internationale at the outset three years ago and have since been eagerly awaiting a European jackpot this summer, President Johnson's as yet unspecified intention to curb travel outside the hemisphere is adding anxiety. "I doubt that the European travel bans will really be prohibitive," says Weitzman, but the club is making plans for substitute 20-day trips to Central and South America-just in case...
...gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol he has imbibed. After a mere two pints of beer, or four small tots of whisky, he risks arrest...