Word: rein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tamed by gently slowing the economy. Its program is to: 1) cling to the tattered wage-price guidelines*; 2) hold the fiscal 1980 budget deficit to $29 billion, down from $32 billion in 1979; and 3) encourage the Federal Reserve Board to continue to keep a firm rein on the money supply. But most non-Government economists believe that inflation will be curbed only by the recession that they predict will begin this summer...
Britain. Despite the efforts of Margaret Thatcher's new Conservative government to rein in double-digit inflation by trimming spending, the country's economic outlook remains bleak. Though Britain's North Sea oil supplies have eased its dependence on-OPEC, British exports are still not strong enough to pay for its imports...
...controversy in the spring of 1976. When the Radcliffe dining hall management suspended him--qstensibly for cooking cauliflower too soon--he submitted a list of five safety grievances. Dining hall workers left their jobs for an emergency meeting, and students, some faculty and workers rallied to pressure for his rein-statement. After his suspension, Holcombe worked at the Freshman Union until his death...
...unusual private fiefdom called R-Ranch (Get it?-"Our Ranch"), one of three such pioneering parks in the state. The idea is simple: an outdoorsman buys an R-Ranch ownership share that grants him not a piece of the land but a piece of the action: recreational free rein over the whole park area. This makes R-Ranch an almost ideal solution to the problem of wilderness use. The land is kept from subdividers; it is also saved from typical state park despoilment. After all, R-Ranchers are hardly apt to litter their own property...
...without doubt unrealizable on the victims' own soil, with or without their consent. It was necessary to uproot them, to transport them to the heart of the jungle, to transform them into prisoners of a delirious faith in a messiah, who in the end would give free rein to his instincts for domination and death for them to become self-destructive robots." Perhaps reflecting a recent, antileftist trend among French intellectuals, the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur thought that the massacre epitomized "the insanity of totalitarianism in the guise of the clerical spirit...