Word: depress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program could actually depress the economy a bit further for a few months. Ford's tariff on imported oil will push...
...were told to take off weight and lower their salt intakes. Some patients were put on an almost totally salt-free rice diet so unappealing that most of them abandoned it as soon as they left the hospital and medical supervision. A handful of doctors even tried surgery to depress blood pressure. The operation was called a sympathectomy; it cut certain nerves leading to the organs of the chest and abdomen on the theory that this would relax the arterioles. It did but only temporarily; the arterioles soon responded to hormonal signals to constrict...
...will finance the storage and transport of the grain and who will control it? U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, whose views are crucial because no reserve system could function without major U.S. participation, worries that the existence of the surplus stocks could hang over the commercial market and depress the prices paid to farmers for their crops. His fear is based on the Government's experience handling the enormous U.S. grain surpluses during the 1950s and 1960s. American farmers commonly-and often bitterly-complain that the Government sold some of those stocks whenever grain prices moved up, thus...
...economic advisers. Most notably, a number of economic aides sensibly favored an additional tax of 100 to 300 on each gallon of gasoline on the grounds that it would not only offset revenue losses caused by granting some tax relief to the poor, but above all, would also depress demand and lessen the nation's dependence upon overpriced, inflation-fueling foreign oil. But in the end, the President was swayed by the arguments of his political advisers. They warned that such a proposal would be poison at the ballot box and have practically no chance of being enacted...
Other demographers disagree. An increasing number of people believe that the Government should use its influence -or even its power-to depress the birth rate even further. Some support heavy taxes to discourage large families; others go so far as to urge the issuance of "licenses to procreate" or even mandatory abortions after a second child-extremes that rightly shock believers in freedom to procreate. So far, demographers point out, the U.S. Government, through its income tax structure and in other ways, like home loans, has been mildly "pronatalist," that is, supportive of child bearing. Nonetheless, the U.S. birth rate...