Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, burned their draft cards and sent the ashes to their local draft boards. Noting the rise of such episodes, Congress in August passed a law making it a federal offense (penalty: $10,000 fine or five years' imprisonment) to destroy a draft card. That seemed to dampen the flames, at least publicly...
Though he called all the plays on his own, without messages from the bench, Shevlin said the thought of pass-bating Coach John Yovicain watching from the sidelines helped dampen the inclination to throw...
...battered pound, Britain's Labor government has not only borrowed heavily abroad but has severely cut back its whole welfare program in favor of the toughest clampdown on Britain's overheated economy since the early '50s. Purpose: to create a measure of deflation and thereby dampen Britain's appetite for buying more abroad than it sells, a habit that has upset the country's trade balance and contributed heavily to the pound's troubles. Last week, with stunning swiftness, the government began getting its way. The first clouds of recession rolled across Britain...
...winter rain slanted coldly down into the crowds, but not enough to dampen the homecoming. Nearly 500,000 cheering chilenos lined the nine-mile route from Los Cerrillos airport into downtown Santiago, waving their red, white and blue colors and chanting "Frei-Frei! Chile-Chile!" Smiling, tearful with gratitude, President Eduardo Frei was home after a 22-day goodwill tour through Italy, France, England and West Germany...
...interest charges for short-term export credits will be trimmed from 7% to 6%; the government will also delay planned construction projects for schools, hospitals, housing and roads-thus bravely inviting a rise in unemployment in hopes of overcoming labor shortages in key export industries, such as shipbuilding. To dampen domestic demand and bring down export prices, the government cut back hard on lending for local public works, also shelved its minimum-wage scheme, postponed promised reductions in socialized-medicine charges and in interest rates for home mortgages, and further tightened consumer credit...