Word: inhibition
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is consistent evidence that marijuana does inhibit vomiting and facilitates sleep," George Goldstein, secretary of the state Health and Environment department, said yesterday. "There is some literature indicating that it also relieves pain," he added...
Certainly, reformers do not want an end to all regulation. But most agree that many of the pre-1960s agencies have outlived much of their usefulness and that their rules, once necessary to curtail the old robber barons, now work to inhibit natural competition and accelerate inflation. These agencies do little if anything to improve the quality of life, and deregulation, as proved by the CAB'S move to free air fares and the SEC's loosening of brokers' commission rates, can quickly and dramatically cut prices...
However, as Lear convincingly shows, the scientists' attitudes towards the public marred the apparent nobility of the discussions. Most of these conferences remained either closed to the press or operated with unusual rules of confidentiality which served to inhibit public discussion and understanding of recombinant DNA research. Moreover, many scientists did not even consider the public's right to have input to regulating research that could cause them harm. Dissenting scientists, those who questioned most closely the hazards of such research, were not invited to the conferences...
...proposals initially drew prickly opposition. At Dutch instigation, four small countries called a separate caucus to sulk over what they regarded as West German and French highhandedness. British Prime Minister James Callaghan, who is reluctant to inhibit the pound in any case, argued that the scheme could be construed by Washington as a move against the dollar. Schmidt proved to be one step ahead of his critics. In a series of telephone calls to Carter, he apparently succeeded in getting Washington's blessing for the monetary idea. Said a ranking German finance ministry official...
...President and Congress had to be fought at all. Carter, like his modern predecessors, resents congressional interference in U.S. foreign policy, particularly the post-Viet Nam laws that limit U.S. intervention abroad or the shipment of military aid to friendly governments resisting Communist insurgency. These restrictions in turn inhibit the U.S. in negotiations; by not being able to threaten the use of force, the U.S. loses its edge at the bargaining table...