Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other developments last week were also likely to dampen CIA morale. Director Stansfield Turner, making what he called his "most difficult decision in 31 years of military service," fired two middle-level agency employees for "lack of good judgment." Their mistake, Turner told the Senate Intelligence Committee, was helping a former colleague to purchase 500 explosive timing devices to sell to Libya. When he learned of the situation, said Turner, he "lost a lot of sleep" and "worked hard for some days to decide what was fair to them and best for the welfare of our intelligence operations." CIA sources...
...loss, Harvard's first of the season, failed to dampen Park's enthusiasm for his team. He gave yesterday's contest a kind of Tom Lasorda post script, noting that "it was a great ballgame to watch and we were beaten by a real strong pitcher. We'll be ready romorrow, though...
While still Deputy Secretary, Vance was dispatched to dampen the 1964 anti-American crisis in the Canal Zone, thus beginning his remarkable set of peacemaking missions for Johnson. In 1965 Vance's skills as a negotiator helped settle a civil war in Santo Domingo, and in 1967 he lent a calming hand to the Army's occupation of Detroit, where violent race riots had killed 43 people...
...Chance is almost too delicious a novel to take seriously, to read any other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...
...Since interstate gas is priced at either 29.5? per thousand cu. ft. (for gas discovered before 1973) or 52? (for "new" gas discovered since then), producers are inclined to sell their gas within the state in which it was found. To make interstate sales more profitable-and dampen consumption at the same time-the FPC lifted the price of new gas to $1.01 per thousand cu. ft. for gas found in 1973 and 1974 and $1.42 for gas newer than that. To encourage gas companies to shift their production to the interstate market, the commission added that any intrastate...