Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trouble Is . . ." Yet for all of Stokely's rabble-rousing, a band of youths similar to the "white hats" who proved so effective in Tampa and Dayton (see following story) was recruited the next day to help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that...
...annual meetings came to order last week, news of pinched profits during the first quarter of 1967 did little to dampen the spirit of this capitalistic rite of spring. Company directors grinned and bore the usual questions about executive wages, profit sharing, charitable contributions, and cumulative stock voting. A.T. & T.'s new chairman, Haakon I. Romnes, greeted his 4,801 guests at Baltimore's Civic Center and handled the meeting with aplomb. In Detroit, Chrysler shareholders barely flinched when Chairman Lynn A. Townsend told them that first-quarter earnings had plummeted 71 % from a year earlier...
...country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition within his own party, he must placate the westward-looking economists, who lament the central decision making that has succeeded mostly in leaving Hungary in debt and its people clamoring for a better life...
...Last summer, faced with mounting international debts, a critical gap between rising imports and diminishing exports, and growing skepticism about the value of the pound sterling, Britain's Labor government put the nation on a deflationary diet. Wages, profits and dividends were frozen; taxes were pegged high to dampen spending, and even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened with uncommon attention last week when Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, with a rosebud...
...will certainly dampen future enthu- siasm," Jones said, if the first of the middle-group courses fail. He said his own course would have to have a larger enrollment to be successful...