Word: straitjacket
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...BILL OF RIGHTS. I cannot consider the Bill of Rights to be an outworn 18th century 'straitjacket.' Its provisions may be thought outdated abstractions by some. And it is true they were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many...
...tries to sell to Japan has to put up with a tortuous process of securing bank-issued licenses and coping with health restrictions (common American food additives are banned) and petty labeling requirements (all figures must be in the metric system). Even more vexing to U.S. businessmen are the straitjacket rules on foreign investment. For example, outsiders are still forbidden to own more than 50% of practically any Japanese firm. These barriers have held U.S. business investment in Japan to a rather meager $365 million...
...wave of destalinization that shook Eastern Europe and resulted in the Poznan riots in Poland and the Hungarian uprising. It set the stage for Czechoslovakia's experiment in "Communism with a human face"-which was also ended by Soviet intervention. By trying to loosen the bureaucratic and ideological straitjacket that Stalinism had wrapped around the entire Communist world, Khrushchev helped to widen the Sino-Soviet split. The Chinese were-and remain-rigid dogmatists who are unlikely to forgive him even in death for his "revisionist" heresy. When French Maoist Regis Bergeron heard that Khrushchev had died, for example...
...ever again staying completely out of wage and price decisions." Adds Walter Heller: "Now that the initial euphoria is wearing off, the country is rightfully saying, That was great for openers, but where do we go from here?' After the 90-day freeze, do we slide into a straitjacket of mandatory controls, or do we use this time to develop a set of noninflationary ground rules and a wage-price review board to monitor them?" Echoes Robert Nathan: "If the Administration's leaders are tough enough, we'll get a good incomes policy and a wage-price...
...experience of flying at literally twice the speed of sound was more dramatic in what did not happen than in what did. My neck did not snap on takeoff, nor did I require a straitjacket to remain in my seat. The plane did not jerk its way up in roller-coaster fashion or plunge straight to the earth for landing. 1 had a feeling of rather unsettling normalcy...