Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worried that the Thatcher government in Britain has adopted measures similar to your proposals to try to curb inflation and revive a stagnant economy, and yet has had to modify some of its policies...
Trying to curb prices, governments hit a new oil slick...
...bridge between the Soviet Union and East Germany, the Warsaw Pact's western flank. Cautioned the paper: "Closing one's eyes to the imperialistic plans would mean suicide." In a tough speech on Saturday, Kania himself declared menacingly that his government had "enough justification and strength to curb the action of open foes of socialism...
...both Carter and Ronald Reagan. In his effort to spread cheer about the preelection economy, the President declared that "the severe recession that we anticipated has not been nearly so severe as we thought." In fact, the Administration had purposefully tipped the economy into recession in order to curb the runaway rise in prices. Yet, as the September figures made plain, the tactic has failed...
...minute televised economic address late last week, he attacked the President for permitting a near doubling in the so-called misery index (see box) that Carter had badgered Gerald Ford with during the 1976 campaign, and argued in effect that big new cuts would now curb inflation as well as unemployment...