Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cease-fire exceed the total number of Americans killed in the course of the war (45,941). "What we have here," observed one of South Viet Nam's top military officers, "is simply a lesser degree of war. We're tired. We'd like to relax. But the question is whether we can afford to relax, and so far the answer...
Because of this prospect, the Federal Reserve Board-whose crusty chairman, Arthur Burns, has sometimes complained that the Fed has been forced to shoulder too much of the burden of fighting inflation-will only gradually relax its tight grip on the nation's money supply. In late summer, the board indulged in a bout of miserliness that resulted in sky-high prime lending rates and shortages of funds for mortgages...
Last week, after visiting European capitals, Yamani went to Washington to explain the Arab embargo and exchange views with top U.S. officials. In each meeting, he made Saudi Arabia's position clear. "We will be more than happy to relax our oil measures if there is reason," he said after a 90-minute meeting with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His definition of being reasonable: Arab oil will flow...
When Bennett first introduced his PSRO plan, the A.M.A. opposed it - just as it had long opposed Medicare. With the Medicare defeat fresh in its mem ory, the A.M.A. hierarchy decided to string along with PSROS but to try to get the law amended to relax some provisions that it considers onerous...
...over North Vietnam, radar operators scanned their screens carefully. American bombing had stopped two months earlier, just before the U.S. presidential election, but eight years of air war had taught the North Vietnamese never to relax their vigilance. Furthermore, the Paris negotiations had broken down a few days previous and messages from Washington had grown increasingly menacing...