Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion this year) largely by ignoring it. In his Labor Day opener in California, he never even mentioned the word. Asked about the deficit two days later by businessmen at the Economic Club of Chicago, the President blandly replied that economic growth would produce higher revenues. To restrain congressional spending, Reagan again advocated a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget, even though he has yet to propose one of his own. Taxes, Reagan maintained, should be raised only as a "last resort." He left it to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan to claim last week that Mondale's plan...
...weather. A Government proposal to increase the number of flights at Kennedy and La Guardia while reducing traffic at nearby Newark ran into objections from People Express. The cut-rate carrier, which uses Newark for its popular shuttle service to Washington and Boston, angrily protested that any cutback would restrain competition for the benefit of a larger airline. The carrier it meant was Eastern, which runs a rival shuttle operation from La Guardia...
...pageantry, especially after the King arrived for his coronation. Merely by waving at Wife Nancy on a giant closed-circuit television monitor visible throughout the hall, Ronald Reagan, Rex Republicans, brought his G.O.P. court roaring to its feet. Formally accepting his nomination to a second term, Reagan could hardly restrain the ecstatic ritual chants of "Four more years!" that repeatedly interrupted his speech. While savoring the moment, he finally pointed to his watch and reminded his audience, "It's getting late...
...fencing is still something to restrain sheep, and fencers are still at the stage of scrambling for subsistence money, recognition and enough new talent to broaden the sport's base. In non-Olympic years, the U.S. fencers who go to meets are not always the country's best; sometimes they are simply the best of those who can afford the trip. Before Angelakis made the 1980 team, her travels were financed for a year with $3,000 raised by the Greek Orthodox Church of Peabody. The odds are that the U.S. is not yet able to produce...
...Cambridge City Council decided this week to postpone voting on an amendment to rent control ordinances which would significantly restrain Harvard and other city landlords' freedom of action...