Word: reins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staunch free-marketeer, Greenspan abhors wage-price controls, approves of a firm rein on money supply...
...more expansionary policies and to pass "silly" legislation that would further fuel inflation. At week's end the President took several of his economic advisers to San Clemente for a round of conferences in preparation for a major economic policy speech. A prime problem is how to rein in prices while enabling the economy to recover...
...towering Fred Gwynne '51 departs from the usual Falstaffian Sir Toby, and gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick...
...critics also attacked Curran's discussion of two possible methods of treatment for violence: drug therapy and behavior modification programs, which they charged couldn't possibly be limited to their stated emphasis on positive rein-forcement under prison conditions...
Delicate Line. Happily, the chances are that the nation can escape a long, intense money squeeze. Arthur Burns well knows that the Federal Reserve must walk a risky and agonizingly delicate line, keeping a rein on credit tight enough to avoid feeding inflation while still putting out enough money to keep the economy from tumbling into recession. He has pledged to avoid a "credit crunch" (a situation in which loans become unavailable for any purpose) and to bail out any banks that get into trouble, even if that means increasing the nation's money supply faster than he would...