Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE HE DOESN'T MARRY A GENTILE." Marriage to a non-Jew is a traditional taboo. Today, in the eyes of most Jewish parents, and particularly grandparents, intermarriage is still something of a calamity. The desire to curb mixed dating partly accounts for the "5 o'clock shadow" that falls on interfaith group activities. But all surveys indicate that intermarriage is rising. A study of Washington's Jewish community (81,000) broke down the rate of intermarrying Jewish men by generations: 1.4% for the foreign-born, 10.2% for the first generation of American-born...
...festive rights following the official ceremonies became so excessive that the Board of Overseers made frequent but always unsuccessful attempts to curb Commencement behavior, even to the extent of banning "plum cake," which the Overseers observed, was never served in European universities...
Last week Lacerda was on the march again. After first supporting the new government of President Humberto Castello Branco, he was now in violent opposition, particularly against the economic policies designed to curb Brazil's inflationary chaos...
Last week in Bonn, after five years of committee hearings and debate, the Bundestag finally voted to deNazify corporate law. The sweeping reform legislation that it passed is virtually a stockholders' Magna Carta that will curb the power of industrial kings and guarantee the rights of stockholders. The law, which applies to publicly owned companies, should also provide German industry with a new flow of badly needed capital...
Then, over lunch at São Paulo's prestigious Automobile Club last fall, Economics Minister Roberto Campos and Texas Economist Benjamin Higgins, a special adviser to the Brazilian government, heard several businessmen say that they would agree to curb prices if, in return, they could get a promise of government "fiscal and credit incentives." Higgins went for the anti-inflation plan, persuaded Campos to accept it. More than 750 companies have already volunteered to abide by it, including nearly all the auto, cement, drug and steel manufacturers...