Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Filling Chairs. He will have plenty to do. The most pressing immediate problem on the country's agenda is the economy. To curb fast-rising inflation, Pompidou has mentioned the possibility of floating a new state bond issue, which would convert back into savings some of the money that has forced domestic consumption to record heights. As for his longer-range hope of bolstering the economy, he will undoubtedly try to restore a favorable trade balance-which last month ran a deficit of $312 million-by resisting excessive wage demands and encouraging exports through tax incentives or subsidies...
...seldom minces his words. Of all the city's legitimate black leaders, he is the most aggressive in presenting grievances against ghetto schools; he is the most strident in denouncing racism. So rough-spoken has he been at times that the city administration has asked New Detroit to curb him. His defenders say that his manner is necessary for his effectiveness. "The white people who work privately with him say he is cooperative and constructive," says the community relations director of one automobile manufacturer. The ministers who brought Ditto to Detroit support his tactics. Says a black former Salvation...
...half of 1968, when the board followed an expansive policy that Martin now admits was an error. Today's economy is growing far faster than the supply of money available to finance that growth. Ultimately, the resulting collision between the demand and supply of funds is bound to curb bank lending and then business activity...
...participation by the poor and the powerless. There will be constant requests, predicts Westin, for the court to referee. If it refuses, he says, there will be "a decade unsurpassed in violence." Beyond that, there will be, without question, a paramount need to provide a legal framework to curb an overweening technology, which even today threatens to destroy both man and his works...
...occurred during the Eisenhower years. The President also wants to avoid precipitous major slashes in federal spending. These would hike the unemployment rate and put an increased number of Negroes-always the last to be hired and the first to be fired-out of work. He is unwilling to curb inflation at the price of social upheaval. Increasingly, Nixon's opportunity for slowing down the economy in a manner acceptable to all factions in the country is narrowing to one prospect: a Viet Nam settlement. He seems willing to gamble, if Congress will allow him, that...