Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, they drafted a new monetary scheme to stabilize international exchange rates that would reconstruct the dismembered European "snake" (which once tied all Community currencies to a narrow range of fluctuation, only to be abandoned over the years by Britain, France and Italy), backed by a new, large reserve fund...
...ruling, Stevens said that the Federal Communications Commission could admonish a radio station for airing "patently offensive" language, even if that language would be protected in another medium as less than "legally" obscene. The "uniquely pervasive presence" of broadcasting justifies such regulation, said Stevens, who tried to narrow the ruling to the facts of the case-an explicit comedy routine that could be heard by a child in the afternoon over New York's radio station WBAI-FM. Angrily dissenting, Brennan said that Stevens' rationale "could justify" banning Chaucer from the radio, as well as portions...
...poor women, though. Last June, by a narrow majority, the Supreme Court held that states need not supply Medicaid funds to women who wanted abortions, nor did hospitals even have to perform the operations if they didn't want to. Since that decision, between 30 and 35 states have ruled, in some form or another, to restrict state funding for abortions. Through October 1977, Medicaid funds paid for an estimated 22,000 abortions in Massachusetts alone and more than 300,000 in the whole country. Medicaid has in fact saved state welfare agencies from having to dole out even more...
Testifying before the Congress's Joint Economic Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller said that policymakers would be "walking through a very narrow valley in the next few months" and would need "tremendous skill" to avoid either another surge in prices or a quick slump back into recession, or perhaps both. Although Miller opposed his colleagues at the Fed on the need for another discount rate increase, he is persuaded that inflation is a more immediate peril than recession; he recommended that Congress postpone the 25?-an-hour increase in the minimum wage (now $2.65) that...
Once that audience got as far as fusion, it often went still further back in time and finally arrived at "pure" jazz. Says Producer Orrin Keepnews, whose Fantasy/Prestige/Milestone label has put out major rereleases: "If we narrow the gap with fusion, we will have accomplished something large...