Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken Promise. As the discussions wore on, Ky eventually realized that he was in a vulnerable position. For one thing, the generals were clearly annoyed with him for his illegal campaigning and for failing to curb Loan. Unmentioned, but certainly on the generals' minds, was Ky's broken promise that he would withdraw from the campaign if Thieu decided...
...year duration) comes from passbook savings subject to almost instant withdrawal. When inter est rates rise rapidly, S & Ls and savings banks are caught in a pincers. To keep their savings accounts, they must pay higher interest, but their income from existing loans remains fixed. So they curb new lending...
India's government usually holds capitalistic impulses tightly in check. There is another impulse, however, that it has failed to curb, and so it is asking free enterprise for help in the most private of all sectors: birth control. Still far from its goal of keeping the growth of a highly fecund population (more than 500 million now) within the nation's food-producing capability, the Health and Family Planning Ministry has decided to enlist some of India's largest companies to distribute government-subsidized rubber condoms...
...large crowd ready to be inflamed were sufficient to spark the riot, observers suggested that there was also another less spontaneous element in the rioting. News of the confrontation at the welfare office spread rapidly. Some local activists rushed to Grove Hall to try to calm the situation and curb the police. "If there's one thing you can count on, it is the brutality of Boston cops," one man said afterwards. By Saturday night, however, there was evidence in the scattered pattern of incidents that at least some groups had been thinking about how to exploit the situation...
...Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism on doctrinal issues, though, some knowledgeable observers suggested that a key reason for his pilgrimage to Fátima was to curb any extremes in the de-emphasis of Mary...