Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strollers wear jingle bells at their ankles, beads or flowers at their throats, and strum guitars or tootle flutes. It is not rare to see a Haight Street hippie put a dime in a parking meter, then flake out along the curb for a legal dose of sun tan. Wall posters, in the style of China's Red Guard movement, abound-most of them signed "Love" or "Peace" and bearing such timeless messages as "Gypsy come home-your mother is pushed out of shape...
...though hardly for the best of reasons. They prefer a relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 71, who undoubtedly would like to curb their independence. To give Desai less time to collect supporters, the party's parliamentary board moved the selection of Prime Minister forward by three weeks, to March 12. Indira was also helped by a feeling that the party should avoid any further upheavals. Said one state chief: "Enough blood...
...DENMARK. Demand for Danish goods abroad has fallen, with agricultural exports especially hard hit by the country's continued exclusion from the Common Market. But consumption at home remains high. To curb inflationary spending and level out incomes, Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag's socialist government has proposed higher taxes...
Luke Cooperrider, a professor of Law and a faculty member of the board yesterday denied that the action represented an administration attempt to curb the Daily...
...problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could curb inflation, avoid recession, ease the painful money pinch, and still expand economically. This could be done, moreover, while the U.S. continued to prosecute the war in Viet Nam and expand social security and welfare programs at home. But, said he, "neither the threat of inflation nor of recession is ever distant...