Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They differed on details but demonstrated a remarkable consensus: prompt imposition of a surtax is vital to curb inflation in an overheating economy, reduce a Government deficit that may hit $29 billion this fiscal year and head off a repetition of the credit squeeze that rocked business...
...young man in Paris gradually turns into a salamander. An elegant young girl crosses a bridge in Budapest and becomes an aged crone in the process. A motorcyclist, after skidding into a curb, finds himself lashed to an Aztec altar as a priest approaches with a knife. The nastiest member of an Argentine family walks into the wrong room and is eaten by a tiger...
...even President Johnson's renewed call last week for a 6% surcharge on corporate and personal income taxes-which would further erode corporate profits-seemed to curb investors' appetite for industrial stocks. While some high-flying issues floundered-among them Xerox, Polaroid, Itek, Teledyne and Fairchild Camera-old favorites moved up nicely. General Motors gained $5.25, to $84.88, and Bethlehem Steel, Goodyear, Standard Oil of California, Chrysler, and General Electric also gained substantially. American Telephone & Telegraph rose 88? a share to $53 after the company announced that it will fight a Federal Communications Commission finding that...
...avoid such a blunder, Congress should pass one of several proposed bills which would curb Stewart and his Congressional allies and which provide that the National Capital Planning Commission, Fine Arts Commission, and architectural profession participate in the planning of all construction in the nation's capital...
...final package included a massive list of 60,000 items on which tariffs are to be pulled down an average 35% by 1972, a special agreement on the thorny issue of chemical duties, a plan to provide grain for underdeveloped nations, and a code to curb below-cost "dumping" of products in world markets. Clearly reflected was the fact that there had been plenty of room for economic maneuver even after the weary Geneva negotiators, under firm prodding by GATT's British Director General, Eric Wyndham White, came to a basic agreement seven weeks ago (TIME...