Word: reines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rough Treatment. The dissatisfaction stems in part from the army's broken promise to hold presidential elections in 1966, its cancellation of the political rights of hundreds of Brazilians, and its use of censorship to keep a tight rein on TV, movies and theater. Moreover, Brazil's minimum wage is a meager $39 a month...
...high as $25 billion - even after the cutback in expenditures - and bolster sagging international confidence in the dollar. During the second quar ter of 1968, the U.S. economy is expected to equal the first quarter's $20 billion leap forward in gross national product. With no rein on the economy, Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports out of world markets; tight money induced by Government borrowing to meet current bills could squeeze interest rates up to 10%, provoke a slump in new housing...
...government. When it comes to any internal threat to his power, however, he is at 75, just as agile as ever at playing rivals off against one another. In some ways, what rankles many Spaniards most is the government's retreat from its promise to relax its tight rein over significant portions of the country's life. After a strike shut down a Bilbao steel plant for seven months, the 1965 right-to-strike law was revoked, a bitter blow to labor. The much heralded press law of 1966 had its freedom riders seriously curtailed by the inclusion...
...been no psychological change in youth in these 75 years. I know-I have lived with them. The colt in the pasture sometimes kicks a hole in the fence. He will probably mature into a very fine horse. If he is to be trained it sometimes requires a tight rein and sometimes a flip of the whip on the buttocks. Most of these youngsters of ours will mature into substantial citizens and will add much to the social order of their day. But one thing they must learn now-that the frustration of the law means tyranny...
...defend its policies before students" if upon other expression of student opinion (than the petition) he finds substantial reason for requiring public discussion." In practice, Dean Glimp, who backs completely open recruitment, would never exercise this option. Still it seems a mistake to give any Dean such a free rein on action that could censor organizations from the campus...