Word: reines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combatting the activities of adversary spooks round the world. Victor Marchetti, the ex-CIA official who turned agency critic, said that colleagues regarded Angleton as "a gentleman, a connoisseur of fine wines, an intellectual who knew orchids, and a fanatic who was always able to keep his fanaticism in rein...
...Labor Party's cart. But now the accumulated strain of the inflationary '70s seems to have caused the once cooperative unions to bolt. Wilson's fate in the Oct. 10 elections depends largely on his ability to convince voters that he will be able to rein in the runaways...
...other highlight of the meeting was a set of proposals for Government action to rein in runaway health-care costs. The proposals, by Wilber J. Cohen, a former Secretary of HEW, included: 1) setting fixed rates for doctors' charges for specific services, and 2) forcing public disclosure of the money that a doctor collects from federal and state medical-aid programs if the total exceeds $50,000. Finally, 16 major labor and civic groups resolved that, "Under no circumstances should funds for human social services be reduced...
...should be, especially in regard to wage-price controls. There were also surprisingly broad areas of agreement. The experts generally believed that under present conditions prospects for prices and growth are dismal, but not yet desperate. There also was a near consensus that the Government must ease its tight rein on credit if the U.S. is to avoid the risk of a deep recession...
...Administration has been relying on the Federal Reserve Board to curb demand by keeping a firm rein on money supply. The rate of money expansion has shrunk from about 12% in February and March to less than 7% in the second quarter. That policy has made it too costly for many companies to raise money in the long-term bond markets and virtually dried up capital in the stock market. It has also hammered the housing industry into its worst condition since the end of World...