Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their drive to win Britain's upcoming elections, the Laborites have heavily stressed the fact that rising land prices are making it increasingly difficult for the average Briton to buy or build his own home. To dampen widespread land speculation, Italy's left-leaning government is pushing for a law that would permit cities to expropriate land in rapidly expanding urban areas. In France, where Parisian land has jumped 70% in value in five years, an unfathomable maze of tax law has been passed to discourage profiteers. All over Europe, inflation on top of prosperity has sent...
With this loss of a monopoly over knowledge, Brewster said, the most important function of a university will be to provide a climate where "20 years of unbroken competition for nothing worthier than test scores" is not allowed "to dampen all aspiration, intellectual as well as active," and "where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...
...Characters, which opened last Wednesday, the lapse is a little less long, the audience a little less stunned than usual. Michael Murray has fashioned a fairly effective version of the Pirandello masterpiece, but the production's faults are just numerous enough to both disconcert the viewer and dampen the power of the play...
...factories busy. After months of nervously watching the spectacle, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his financial agents were alarmed when January's figures showed that Britain's trade gap had widened to the largest ($460 million) in history. Last week the government took action to dampen Britain's spending spree by raising interest rates from...
Golden Sea. At last week's press conference at the Elysee Palace, le grand Charles seemed intent on proving that he could dampen fires as well as ignite them. More than 1,000 newsmen, diplomats and officials were perched anxiously on a sea of spindly gold chairs when at the stroke of 3 p.m. the raspberry-red curtains parted and De Gaulle lumbered to the podium, wearing a sober charcoal-grey suit and a dark striped tie. He gave the familiar wave to the crowd, heard the same gaggle of questions-some planted and some not-and then exercised...