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...imposes certain obligations of non-interference, restraint on freedom which actually expand our capacities to decide and to act effectively for ourselves...
...fabric of negotiations with the Soviet Union--which we strongly support--has unfortunately had limited success in winning restraint. President Ford's abandonment of the term 'detente' clearly shows a recognition that the more extreme claims made for changes in the superpowers' relationship were quite unrealistic. Stability is disturbed and tension increased if the Soviet Union makes geo-political gains through its support of wars of national liberation, by the use of surrogates...
...these objectives. The main elements of this strategy have been to bring government spending under control; to free resources to the private sector and to individuals; to pursue a responsible monetary policy with clearly announced goals, and to generate a climate of national responsibility in which wage and salary restraint will be possible and in which both business and unions will act with a principal regard for the national interest... We took a number of steps to help investment and ease the cash crisis for many businesses. These included a 40 per cent investment allowance; suspension of quarterly tax installments...
...strength of the franc has helped the fight against inflation by making imports cheaper. Labor unions have also showed restraint in wage demands. The recession helped to hold prices down, also, by lowering demand...
Chief Justice Warren Burger declared that the court was not imposing an "absolute prohibition" on gag rules, but he added that "the barriers to prior restraint remain high." In the Nebraska case, he ruled, "this prohibition regarding 'implicative' information is too vague and too broad." Moreover, some of the banned information had been revealed in a public hearing and "what transpired there could not be subject to prior restraint" under any circumstances.* Where the banned information is not on the public record, however, Burger refused to "rule out the possibility [that an extraordinary] threat to fair trial rights...