Word: curbed
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...reached a record $320 million in 1965. For more than a year, Republican Nickerson has been putting that experience to work for the Administration: as head of a special Commerce Department advisory group on the balance-of-payments problem, he has pushed the President's "voluntary" program to curb overseas investment-working hard to keep it voluntary...
Chances are better that inflation will slow down, that money will loosen, and taxes will not go up. The American people want to curb Government non-defense spending, and federal and local legislators will have to oblige them. While the recently passed Great Society programs will not be jettisoned, new programs will be viewed with a cooler eye. All that, in the opinion of U.S. businessmen, is the meaning of last week's election...
Even a cutback of federal spending to curb inflation would have little effect if 50 states and thousands of localities were increasing expenditures. On the other hand, in case of a recession, a federal tax reduction to stimulate the economy could be negated by the inexorable rise in state and local taxes-which last year amounted to an average $266 for every man, woman and child in the country. The problem will grow as state and local governments are forced to spend much more on rapidly rising populations. Despite the recently lower birth rate, Dr. Philip M. Hauser, a University...
...those who agree with him," said the court, "remain free, as indeed they should be, to criticize national policy as they desire by the written or spoken word; they are simply not free to destroy selective-service certificates." In short, as the court sees it, the law does not curb speech; it merely "reinforces an obligation which has been imposed on registrants for many years." Still unconvinced, Miller says he will appeal to the Supreme Court...
Answering the first of U Thant's three points, a call for an end to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam, Goldberg vowed that the Administration will gladly halt the raids "the moment we are assured" that Hanoi will curb its war effort. As for a mutual reduction of military activity, Thant's second point, Goldberg pointed out that the U.S. has repeatedly urged a supervised, phased withdrawal of "all external forces." On Thant's third point, inclusion of the Viet Cong in peace negotiations, the U.S. ambassador noted that this was not, in President Johnson...