Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, he said, should appoint a commission of distinguished citizens to spend six months consulting with labor leaders, corporate chiefs and consumer groups in order to work out equitable and noninflationary guidelines for wage and price behavior. During those six months, the President would ask all businesses to refrain from increasing prices and all labor leaders who are negotiating contracts to take perhaps a 5% interim wage boost and keep the contracts open for final negotiation when the guidelines come out. If even partially accepted, the policy would brake the inflationary momentum. When the guidelines were finally promulgated, the atmosphere...
Foster tried to work out last week prior to the Brown contest, but as he confessed, "I couldn't even trot; I couldn't do anything." He went out to practice yesterday with orders from doctors to refrain from sprints, fast starts or sudden jerks of any kind...
With these words, Richard Nixon last week explained the prerequisite for the era of negotiation into which he aspires to lead the two superpowers. In a speech at the United Nations to mark its 25th anniversary, the President stressed the necessity for nations to refrain from the all-too-common diplomatic practice of deception and ruse. "The profoundest national interest of our time, for every nation," said the President, "is not immediate gain but the preservation of peace...
...cost of malpractice insurance is borne by patients. This is one reason for the 21% rise in doctors' fees since 1967, to say nothing of extra tests and X rays ordered by doctors who fear malpractice suits. Worse, many doctors have begun to practice defensive medicine. Some refrain from prescribing drugs or recommending surgery that might run the slightest risk; others avoid cases in which they cannot virtually guarantee success. The result, says Dr. Richard Gibbs, chairman of the Massachusetts Medical Society's committee on professional liability, is in "the worst possible interest of the people...
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