Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glowing Goal. In lone dissent, Justice John M. Harlan (grandfather of the present justice) argued that the whole spirit of the amendment was positive: that it ordered states to provide equal access to public facilities of all kinds. But the court then saw the amendment as merely a curb on discriminatory "state action," giving neither the court nor the Congress power to regulate individual behavior. As a result, while states cannot enforce segregation, they are free to deal as they please with private housing discrimination...
...order to stimulate economic growth, and it has worked only too well: a new Government survey shows that business and plant expansion this year will be 17% greater than last year and 76% greater than in 1961 (see U.S. BUSINESS). Canceling the tax credit, the President hopes, will curb the inflationary upsurge in business expenditures as well as reduce demand for borrowed money...
...Simple Morality." For all the star dust, the political issues were hardening. Reagan of late has scored the Governor for failure to curb "runaway crime," claims that the state's welfare system gives able-bodied workers "pay for play," and last week rapped Brown's handling of troubles at the University of California as "appeasement of campus malcontents and filthy-speech advocates." The overriding issue, says Reagan, is "simple morality...
...obvious intensification of the N.R.A.'s anti-legislation campaign may be unnecessary. In Congress, where the association maintains influential contacts and can mount a massive barrage of letters at the drop of a new gun bill, a measure sponsored by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd to curb interstate firearms traffic re mained bottled up last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee, with prospects for its passage in this session dimming rapidly...
...average dropped 13.53 points to 767.03, its lowest level since Jan. 2, 1964. Next day, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr told a House committee that the Government "can't rely on monetary policy much more," must boost taxes or cut spending "if we have to do more" to curb the exuberant U.S. economy...