Word: restricted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Measures to "promote the efficiency, growth and stability" of commodity markets by establishing a "consumer-producer forum" for every key commodity, starting with copper. Kissinger emphasized, however, that the U.S. opposed price fixing for it would "distort the market, restrict production and waste resources for everybody...
Until now, Nader and his followers had pinned their hopes on getting legislative curbs on more nukes. For a while that strategy seemed to be working. A total of 21 states introduced measures to restrict development of nuclear power. But only two have acted: Vermont, which passed a law last April giving the legislature the right to approve (or turn down) future atomic reactors; and California, which will hold a referendum next June on whether, in effect, to ban nuclear plants. Almost all of the other proposals have either been voted down as totally impractical or tabled until next year...
...bill is a product of the Nixon Administration, prepared under the aegis of Attorneys General Mitchell and [Richard] Kleindienst. The objective of the draftsmen," Countryman said, "was to restrict individual liberties in order to preserve the secrecy of the Nixon Administration's corrupt policies...
...incentive plans of the 1960s, which also generally failed to anticipate the economic crises of the 1970s. Yet more and more people in the U.S. seem attracted to the idea of setting up a federal body that would attempt to give early warnings of shortages and bottlenecks that both restrict production and aggravate inflation...
...inflationary wages on federally assisted construction projects; the Jones Act, which forbids shippers to use low-cost foreign vessels to move goods from one U.S. port to another; misnamed fair-trade laws that permit manufacturers to prevent retailers from cutting prices on brand-name products; agricultural "marketing orders" that restrict the supply of oranges, tomatoes and other products; and freight, regulations that force many trucks to return empty from long-distance trips, although they could carry cargo on the backhauls...