Word: stanching
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With that, the President moved to stanch the dollar drain with the most Draconian measures yet. He outlined a five-point program aimed at cutting the deficit by $3 billion in the year ahead. Principal features: a reduction in U.S. investment abroad, particularly in Western Europe, to save $1 billion; a cutback in U.S. loans to foreigners to save $500 million; scaled-down Government expenditures overseas-by the Pentagon, by heavily staffed U.S. embassies and by G.I.s and their dependents-to save $500 million; deferment for two years of all but what the President called "the most important, urgent...
Those were the most serious injuries in the meet. In addition, Kopecki's match was stopped several times to stanch his bleeding nose (and he had entered the match with a hunk of padding over some stiches on his right cheek...
...Going to Stay." In a public move to stanch the nation's unrest, the President decided to turn an address to the National Legislative Conference in San Antonio into a major policy speech. His timing, uncharacteristically, was bad. Only NBC-TV aired him live. As a result, most Americans missed a hard-hitting speech, briskly delivered without...
Secret Weapon. Marines are fighting ferociously guarding the DMZ in 1967, but the invasion continues unabated. And so, in an effort to stanch this wound, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara last week confirmed long-rumored plans for a 47-mile barrier across Viet Nam just below the DMZ. It will stretch from the South China Sea to Laos, running only 25 miles south of the two great walls of Dong Hoi and Truong Duc, erected in the 1630s by the Nguyen dynasty to fend off the warring Trinh emperors of the North...
...contrast with the recent practice of amputating above the knee, the Burgess team operated as far below the joint as possible, while still avoiding infected bone. After dressing the sutured stump to stanch bleeding, the surgeons used an elastic bandage soaked with plaster of paris to mold a cast around the stump and up Myers' thigh. Into the cast they built an aluminum socket, ready for insertion of a temporary aluminum column of adjustable length...