Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finally reached a climax began 20 years ago when the Federal Government noticed that wholesale prices for tetracycline-based antibiotics were not only surprisingly high but identical at various drug companies. Eventually, the Justice Department charged Pfizer, American Cyanamid and Bristol with fraudulently monopolizing patents and conspiring to fix prices. Upjohn and Squibb were named as coconspirators. A jury's criminal conviction was overturned, and the case was ultimately dismissed. But droves of antibiotic users, including the U.S. Army, the governments of Iran and South Viet Nam and the various state governments, brought civil suits and class actions against...
Four weeks later she had lost 25 pounds, her skin had sunk into sallow caves in her face. After five weeks she had strength only to fix her daily grain and tea, and she had lost muscle control so she would scatter the food in spasms that shook her as she prepared...
...last section of the summary, Curran suggests two possible methods of treatment for violence--drug therapy and behavior modification. Both methods have been sources of heated controversy. Dumont, for example, criticizes drugs, particularly heavy tranquilizers, as "a chemical fix for any emotional distress [which] clouds over the necessary emotional reactions to life." These tranquilizers are now proving to create permanent physical damage to the eyes, liver, and nervous system...
...monetary system at their meeting in Nairobi last September. Postponing any further action on reform until July, they left in effect the ad hoc system of "floating" exchange rates that has existed since the last big monetary crisis a year ago. If they had agreed at Nairobi to fix rigid exchange rates, the pressures generated by the oil price hike in late 1973 could well have led to huge devaluations and other dislocations and paralyzed the monetary system. As Paul McCracken, former chief economic adviser to President Nixon, says: "It would have been a disaster. Whatever they had agreed...
...Because the full impact of the oil price increases is still not known, the IMF'S Committee of 20-which is dominated by the industrialized nations that call the shots in monetary affairs-agreed at a meeting in Rome last week to put off indefinitely any plans to fix firm currency exchange rates. Even the French government abandoned its usual allegiance to fixed rates. It decided to stop propping up the value of the franc, which it had done by spending its foreign currencies to buy francs. Now the franc will probably decline...