Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolution (April 23, 1979) and Pope John Paul II's visit to America (Oct. 15, 1979). A profile of Ronald Reagan earlier this month brought his career total to 29 cover stories. With his 30th, this week's cover on President Carter's struggle to curb inflation, Church finds himself back in the business world, though some colleagues believe he never really left. Says Nation Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited the story: "George reads economic statistics with the gusto that other people devote to reading menus, Racing Forms or love poems...
...your mother's chocolate chip cookies to come out of the oven. You try to do something else, but you keep heading back to the kitchen, thinking about those cookies. Baseball does the same thing to people. I even know someone who went to Fenway and sat on the curb outside for three hours in February. In February...
...didn't go to the park but I have been going crazy wondering about the possibility of the major league players going on strike. It seems likely, since the player vote is now something like 500 to 1 in favor of a walkout. My friend might be on the curb for awhile...
...month before, and new orders received by manufacturers rose 3.6% in January. Those reports only intensified a paradoxical fear among bankers, economists and even some politicians. They worry lest the Administration's policies will not bring a recession this year. In their view, only a slump can curb inflation; if it does not occur, and prices keep skyrocketing, the economy may be headed for a real bust later. "The figures show that we are still probably not in a recession," said Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, with disappointment clearly audible in his voice...
...Administration seems convinced. It has been considering a number of possibilities, but the only significant step it is believed likely to ask the board to take is to impose some kind of curb on all credit cards. It might put a lower ceiling on the debt that a consumer could run up on a card, or require speedier repayment of outstanding balances...