Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George C. Moore Jr., 52, former maitre d' at The Sands in Las Vegas, is an egg-carton maker whose only visible campaign activity has been to plant one of his campaign signs on the Governor's reserved-parking curb behind the Capitol and another above a toilet in Virginia City's Delta Saloon. Explains Moore...
...Science's "triple disease-journalitis, moneyitis, administratitis." Able to Say No. Meanwhile, a hopeful sign is the new Federal Office of Science and Technology, created in June to coordinate the research contracts of 75 federal agencies. The new office will police wasteful duplication of research projects, and perhaps curb research empire-building...
After Britain's small but noisy neo-Nazi movement provoked a Trafalgar Square riot with anti-Semitic speeches two weeks ago, a pro-Labor country squire, Lord Walston, wrote the London Observer an angry letter calling for extensive laws to curb excesses in public speech. Replying a week later, mischievous Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 59, penned his own modest proposal to the lord. Wrote Waugh: "May I commend to him a group whose interests, I am sure, lie near his heart: his own peers? . . . They have, like the Jews, been the objects of frequent, atrocious attack. They are now held...
...dollars a year in price-support loans on cotton. Another irony is that, while supposedly helping to preserve old-fashioned rural virtues, price-support programs tend to make U.S. farmers dependent on the Government and put before them abundant temptations to cheat. Also, while the Government is trying to curb farm production, it is simultaneously fostering increased production through research, distribution of free fertilizer, and so forth...
...encourage investment is a thoroughgoing overhaul of the U.S. tax system, which places a heavier burden on investment than in any other industrialized nation in the world. But real tax reform depends largely on responsible fiscal policies and a curb on excessive government spending. The fact is that continued deficits and steadily rising government expenditures make businessmen, both at home and abroad, fearful of the dollar's future. In the U.S. the result is deferred investment; abroad it often takes the form of cashing in dollars for U.S. gold. The U.S. obviously has not yet done enough to solve...