Word: containment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruins responded by unleashing a drive of their own to tie the game at 23-all. Both teams were now playing wide-open, end-to-end football which neither defense could contain. The Brown score came six minutes into the period, with Moran bucking over the middle from three yards out for his second touchdown...
Luther Ragin Jr, '76, a student at the Kennedy and Law Schools, said other organizations, such as the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, exist to deal with the broader issues. He said a "multiplicity of committees and overlapping structures" would diffuse and contain the energy created by this issue...
...have reached those limits and are being left with only the fragments of our hopes. We are closing not only a century but also a millennium, and the accumulated force of that realization heightens a certain apolcalyptic impulse, a febrile fatigue. As if to accommodate this spirit and contain it, the country seems to want to settle only for a credible competence in its education, its government, its means of pleasure, its craftsmanship. It should never want less, but it ought to aspire to more, and universities and colleges must have the will and the energy to focus themselves...
...other country do women assume such major military responsibilities. In the U.S.S.R., for example, although 1 million women were mobilized during World War II and some flew bombers and drove tanks, today's 4 million-strong armed forces contain only 10,000 women. Even Israel, which has used women as soldiers from the beginning, has only 5% and keeps virtually all of them out of combat...
...which banks lend to one another to nearly 9%, a level that Economist Okun believes-almost guarantees recession by making borrowing more expensive. Nor is there much hope that the rises in loan charges will stop. The Federal Reserve has been jacking up interest rates largely in order to contain an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply, but so far it has failed. Money supply during the past month has shot up at an annual rate of about 12%, nearly double the board's upper target...