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...main lesson of foreign experience is that governments often undermine their own incomes policies by pouring too much money into the economy?but that incomes policy combined with moderate-to-strict fiscal and monetary policies can have an influence. The O.E.C.D. recently concluded that incomes policies usually help restrain inflation for a year or two. That might be just what the U.S. needs to get through the difficult transition period when excess demand no longer exists but the wage-price spiral is whirling...
...Timers tried to pace themselves and slow down the hockey waiting for a good shot and shying away from hitting. But Fernie Flaman could not restrain himself and got two penalties. one for blatant offensive checking...
...serious and relatively open male supremacist attitudes on the part of the Harvard administration. I ask the Harvard community, in particular the Radcliffe administration, to join in helping to make the Harvard administrators uncomfortable with these attitudes. Even if their minds cannot be changed, they can be forced to restrain themselves. They should not be allowed to enforce discriminatory practices...
...wild welcome modestly; he read his speech well, talking about big government and "the problems of middle management," or the power exercised by the bureaucratic machinery through which legislation must pass as it is executed. "What is the greatest single threat to our freedom?... The impossibility of governments to restrain the growth of bureaucratic government. Every single government that has fallen has fallen because of the welfare state that follows bureaucratic government...
Indispensable Tradition. The Swedish Academy cited Solzhenitsyn for "the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." In a country where church, judiciary and other institutions have often proved unable to restrain the power of either czar or commissar, the writer has emerged as the last authoritative voice of conscience. Tolstoy protected peasants against religious persecution, and Pushkin nurtured democratic ideals that inspired the 1825 Decembrist uprising. Gorky sought to restrain the more brutal urges of the Bolsheviks, and Pasternak remained a symbol of moral values. Solzhenitsyn is aware of the power-and perils...