Word: restrictions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...technologically impossible" to introduce new exhaust-pollution-control devices on all 1966 models. They finally did so, says the Justice Department suit, only because companies out side the auto industry had developed similar devices. Detroit's car companies are also accused of using a cross-licensing agreement to restrict the prices that they would pay to outside companies for pollution-control patents...
...differences will require each nation to sacrifice some monetary sovereignty and turn over more authority to the International Monetary Fund. But the harsh fact is that the current, outdated system has already cost much sovereignty by forcing nations to take unwanted and potentially unhealthy steps to raise taxes, restrict trade and deflate economic growth for the sake of sound money...
...Restrict the powers of some speculators, including the huge multinational corporations, most of which are U.S.-controlled. Such firms hold enormous cash reserves in foreign currencies. Whenever a crisis threatens, treasurers rush to shift their reserves from "weak" currencies (currently French francs and British pounds) into "strong" currencies (currently German marks, Swiss francs and others) and thus bring on or aggravate a crisis...
...from par, or else countries have to devalue. To prevent such unsettling measures, more and more economists-including some close consultants to Nixon-argue that currencies should be allowed to fluctuate up or down by 4% or 5%. Then governments would not be forced to take sudden measures to restrict their domestic economies and restrain their imports-moves that hurt all consumers...
...another, the injury is permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded...