Word: orderings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favoring first one side, then the other. At issue is a $2.3 billion nuclear power plant that New England power companies, led by Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, insist must be built to satisfy the region's growing electricity needs. The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has now ordered that plant construction be suspended by July 21, thus awarding a temporary victory to the anti-nuclear forces, particularly their noisiest wing, the Clamshell Alliance. The alliance has mustered up to 18,000 protesters in four demonstrations at the site, and a Clamshell spokesman proclaimed the stop-work order...
...speech, equal protection and due process to safeguard individual rights, which usually meant those of the poor, minorities and criminal defendants. With the arrival of the Nixon appointees, the court was less concerned with the rights of the poor, and its decisions became more conservative. Deferential to law-and-order needs, the court was usually thought of as reluctant to tackle large issues, preferring to leave more decision-making to legislatures and local courts...
...Miller's advantages in fighting inflation is that the battle has become Topic A for consumer and Cabinet officer alike. As recently as March 8, when Miller was sworn in, Government policy was still focused on stimulating the economy to faster growth in order to bring down unemployment. That goal has been achieved, at an inflationary price; the jobless rate in June fell to a four-year low of 5.7%. Now the talk in Washington and the country is all of tight budgets, spending hold-downs and the long effort needed to bring prices under control...
...done enough to produce this switch to make businessmen and bankers look on him as the white hat in a kind of financial western: the new gun who arrived in Washington to rally the citizenry against the enemy, much as the Texas Rangers rode in to restore law-and-order in the Borger of his youth. He quickly put the Fed on a course of raising interest rates sharply, to hold back the inflationary growth of money supply and to keep dollars at home. In private debates and public remarks, Miller has pleaded with the White House, of which...
...important consideration. The Federal Reserve may set an interest-rate target of, say, 7¼% to 7¾% for Fed funds? which is believed to have been its goal in June. But if loan demand is exceptionally strong, it may have to put out more money than it wants to in order to keep the rate from rising above the upper limit...