Word: howling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maryland legislature passed "emergency" legislation prohibiting the carrying of handguns without permits and giving search-on-suspicion power to the police. This was to be the cure for violent crime, and now that its uselessness has been demonstrated, the "pass a law and solve every problem" people will howl for more gun control...
...TRYING to tame a tiger by throwing him raw meat when he growls menacingly is a risky strategy. Yet the Nixon Administration is following just such a policy in foreign trade, attempting to appease protectionists by placing curbs on the imports about which they howl loudest. Last month the Administration bludgeoned Japan into setting "voluntary" quotas on shipments of textiles. Now it is trying to persuade Italy, Spain and Japan to similarly restrict sales of shoes to the U.S. These moves expand a record that includes such earlier items as the "temporary" 10% surcharge that Nixon slapped on many imports...
...Senate has killed foreign aid [Nov. 8], for the time being at least. Bureaucrats and dictatorships around the world can howl and mourn. The great "support America or else" giveaway has ended...
...Dividend restraints would have little economic effect and would raise no great howl from corporate managers since they would not affect profits. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans already has won pledges from 1,211 big U.S. corporations that they will not raise dividends during the f'reeze. As of last week, the Nixon Administration planned to put some limits on dividend increases during Phase II, depending on voluntary compliance and continued Government pressure on violators. Administration officials have opposed guidelines for interest rates because they fear that bankers would use any such standard as an excuse for not cutting rates...
...work takes its form from the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie eleison, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. As more or less ironic counterpoint, a populist band of sinners and dancers variously sing, intone or howl doubts and questions in a mélange of musical styles and pop-lyric words by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, the 23-year-old creator of Godspell, the musical version of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. The dramatic climax of the work is the disruption of the Mass. It also involves the spiritual shattering of a young man who begins...