Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mitterrand has come under mounting criticism for his handling of the economy. He has been berated for increased government spending and successive devaluations of the franc. Fellow Socialists have groaned about his stringent austerity program, designed to bring the soaring foreign trade deficit under control and to curb France's 8.5% inflation. Students, shopkeepers and even policemen took to the streets last spring to vent their displeasure with the policies of his two-year-old government. His approval rating has plunged from 50% to 35% in the past year. Last week the President endured another barrage of criticism, this...
Minutes of the previous Open Market Committee meeting in May, released the day after Volcker's testimony, revealed that the group has turned into a battleground in recent months. The committee voted 7 to 5 during the May session to curb money growth moderately. Volcker had led the majority...
Then there was the ever present pilot fish, the press, always asking how it felt, what you thought. Crazy. How could you tell them? When asked, "Are you glad to be home?" how could you curb your tongue from blurting out as your brain wanted to: "Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?" For four months, until the replacements came, you had been part of the multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon, you and 4,000 other Marines and sailors. The Navy brought you back on five ships by way of Key West, where you were to have a fleetingly...
...still moving cautiously. With the death of Arvid Pelshe last month, the Politburo was reduced to eleven members, compared with 14 only 17 months ago. Contrary to expectations, Andropov did not fill the vacancies. His reluctance to do so suggests that powerful factions may be trying to curb Andropov's power to pack the Politburo with men loyal to him. Says a Western diplomat: "He's not as strong as Brezhnev was. He didn't get his way, or the jobs would have been filled...
...Though Torch Song's success has lifted his career into orbit, it has not changed Fierstein's life very much in other ways. He still has an apartment in Brooklyn, where he lives alone with two dogs, still rides the subways and is still trying to curb, without much apparent progress, an overly generous waistline. His former lover, the bisexual schoolteacher, was thrilled to see Fierstein win the Tonys; Fierstein, meanwhile, has become involved with another actor-writer. Right now, however, he is thinking about life after Torch Song, packing up in his dressing room, and saying goodbye...