Word: dampen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Receding Risk. In contrast, members of the Board of Economists can envision few forces that might dampen demand. Banker Sprinkel warns that the Federal Reserve could stem the recovery by holding down the growth of the nation's money supply, as it has for the past four months. That seems unlikely, however. The recent tightness has only corrected a too-rapid money expansion early last year; for the year, the U.S. money supply increased a healthy 6%, and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns has said he will make enough money available to finance "vigorous" expansion...
...Service. Mrs. Gandhi made several gestures to try to dampen the anti-American feeling, and refused to allow debate in the Indian Parliament on the U.S. moves. But she also sent a long, accusatory and somewhat self-serving letter to President Nixon, in which she argued that the war could have been avoided "if the great leaders of the world had paid some attention to the fact of revolt, tried to see the reality of the situation and searched for a genuine basis for reconciliation." Instead, Mrs. Gandhi said, only "lip service was paid to the need for a political...
This is not to say, however, that the art lacks intricacies: consider the names of the steps-taps, triple wings, toe tips, pendulum wings, cramp rolls, heel drops, heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...
Near Perfection. The failure, though disappointing, will hardly dampen the Stuttgart's tour. Ever since Cranko, now 43, took over the company ten years ago, he has been building a formidable repertory of splendid, full-length dramatic works. Romeo and Juliet was his first success, done to the traditional Prokofiev score. Typically, Cranko stripped the story of many a nonessential, involved the whole town of Verona in the clash of families, including a market-square fight with tossed oranges. He skipped the implausible intricacies of Romeo's exile and Friar Laurence's muddleheaded planning and then...
...money comes from the sale abroad of Chinese foodstuffs, textiles, flashlights, bicycles and other small manufactured goods. The customers who supply the cash are mostly in Asia, and they gladly dip into their own meager reserves. "Frankly," says a Republic of Singapore trade official, "the Chinese goods help dampen inflation here because they're so cheap...