Word: cutbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked well in areas where health officials have made it clear that the information will never reach the police.) Laboratories, it is proposed, should be compelled to report all positive reactions. Once bitten by overoptimism, the VD crusaders are now doubly shy of any letdown. There must be no cutback in funds, they insist, until the great pox is really conquered. Dr. Brown warned that as cases become fewer, finding them will become harder-and perhaps more costly...
...institutional buyers of securities some time ago mapped a reduction in their common stock holdings. For the past six months to a year, some insurance companies have been quietly switching money from stocks into bonds, mortgages and other hard investments. The Bank of New York has ordered a 10% cutback in the common stock holdings of each of the pension funds it manages. The pension funds managed by U.S. Trust...
...ASIA. Moscow engineered the neutralization of Laos, and is forcing the U.S. to pour even more military aid-possibly even troops-into shaky South Viet Nam. But also in Asia, Red China's immense economic crisis will surely force a cutback in industrial goals, just as the 1958 crop failure required a drastic revision downward of the "Great Leap Forward." In the Philippines, Burma and Malaya, Communist rebellions have been almost completely erased. Perhaps more important, spectacular industrial gains in Japan have undercut the influence of the divided local Communist Party and moderated the anti-Americanism of the left...
...with the same concentration and faultless precision that another might devote to a game of jacks. The baton shot up and around as the girl flipped it into a neck roll, then an elbow roll, then an elbow roll with a throw-out, then a shoulder roll with a cutback, and a hitch kick, and a split jump, and then a tour jete. Beaming with satisfaction, her mother patted the daughter on the head, flicked a speck off her shoulder, and said: "Bye, bye, dear. See you later." As an afterthought, she turned once again and barked: "And smile...
Many passengers were indignant. Said one irate New Yorker: "How can a woman have a good time in Europe and still limit herself to only $100?" The more knowing grumbled that Congress had taken so long to act that the gold drain had virtually stopped anyway, and the cutback was no longer necessary...