Word: reins
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Notable exceptions are the trio of essays that conclude the book, one of which Clarke included in his sworn testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Space Science in 1975. Clarke gave full rein to his imagination in this encounter, tantalizing the committee members with the possibility of laying a cable from a satellite in geostationary orbit all the way down to the earth's surface. Payloads could then be sent up the cable by mechanical means, creating an "electric elevator to space, or a Streetcar Named Heaven." Clarke ended his formal remarks before the Congressmen with a reversal...
...eleven-year legal battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial Valley from the big sell-off Last week President Carter ordered Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland to rein in his deputy fast...
...advocated by western experts at the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the western-controlled International Monetary Fund. Aid to underdeveloped countries is often tied to policy recommendations, so that if Third World governments want to borrow capital for development, they must give multinational corporations free rein...
...addition, Triffin believes, U.S. monetary authorities-including the Federal Reserve Board and the Comptroller of the Currency-should use their influence to persuade major U.S. banks to rein in the particularly openhanded lending policies of their foreign branches, especially in places like the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. At present these branches are subject to few of the checks that the Government places on banks located...
...collision course over whether to stimulate the economy, there was speculation that Burns would try to thwart any presidential attempt at fiscal pump priming by tightening up sharply on credit. In recent weeks the Federal Reserve has indeed begun raising short-term interest rates-to try to rein in what it considers an overly rapid growth in the money supply now that inflation is bumping back up to double-digit levels. The Federal Reserve's move toward tighter credit, while welcomed by businessmen who share Burns' concern about inflation, helped to dash hopes of a spring rally...