Word: restrains
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...Oxford-Cambridge system, has received several reverses in the proposed administration at Lowell House. The differences between it and its brother House are slight, yet they offer a certain basis for the contention that the new Harvard will be over-Anglicized; and they see definitely of a sort to restrain the development of the close relationship of student and tutor that is part of the House Plan. In Lowell House, the tutors table is to be a high table in position as well as in name, for it will be located on a platform raised above the rest...
...news of the wage-price freeze, the pound strengthened to $2.36. The British also have now taken the European lead in fighting inflation. Before the British freeze, Common Market finance ministers had met in order to cobble together an anti-inflationary package for Europe, but agreed chiefly to restrain budgetary and credit increases in their own countries, to cut some farm tariffs temporarily and to encourage more competition among businesses...
Bankers see in this jawboning a threat that the Administration might place controls on rates. The committee itself has given no public hint of what kind of line it might pursue, though the Federal Reserve has the power to restrain certain rates. This week New York's First National City Bank and Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank & Trust lowered their prime rates from 5? to 5¾. In addition, New York's Bankers Trust gave up the practice of automatically keeping its prime loan rate slightly above such key money market rates as those for commercial paper and certificates of deposit...
Dillard recounts the story of a black man who got himself into trouble by fleeing from some policemen who were attempting to serve him with a restraining order. "They goin' to strain me," he told the judge later. Because Black English does not pronounce the initial syllable in the word, he interpreted restrain as strain, a word that means 'beat' in Black English...
...easier for the Republicans to restrain their aggressive tendencies this time round because they feel that McGovern has made haymakers unnecessary. They can scarcely believe their luck in having an opponent who laid out his whole program in vulnerable detail before the main campaign was under way. For months, Republican strategists have been picking it apart and storing up ammunition. Nixon has told his campaign planners: "Our peopie don't have to go around talking about our budget deficit. Talk about how much McGovern's programs would cost." He also intends to throw the blame for the deficits...