Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...bridge between the Soviet Union and East Germany, the Warsaw Pact's western flank. Cautioned the paper: "Closing one's eyes to the imperialistic plans would mean suicide." In a tough speech on Saturday, Kania himself declared menacingly that his government had "enough justification and strength to curb the action of open foes of socialism...
...Congressman Wyatt treated the class to some personal insight on another of Untermeyer's favorite themes--the effect of politics on personal and family life. Drawling that "members of Congress are people, too," Wyatt said that after he was accused of participation in a homosexual incident and failed to curb his chronic drinking, he checked into a hospital for treatment because "it was been to get myself cured than run for reelection." Untermeyer cautions his students that the "all-consuming" demands of political life prevent all but the rarest politician from "having anything resembling a normal family life...
...both Carter and Ronald Reagan. In his effort to spread cheer about the preelection economy, the President declared that "the severe recession that we anticipated has not been nearly so severe as we thought." In fact, the Administration had purposefully tipped the economy into recession in order to curb the runaway rise in prices. Yet, as the September figures made plain, the tactic has failed...
...minute televised economic address late last week, he attacked the President for permitting a near doubling in the so-called misery index (see box) that Carter had badgered Gerald Ford with during the 1976 campaign, and argued in effect that big new cuts would now curb inflation as well as unemployment...
...that the free enterprise system, unencumbered by environmental guidelines that Carter has supported, will fill in the gaps. Where Carter has nominated sane, balanced people to guide the country's future in nuclear energy, Reagan would pull out all the stops. Where Carter has taken steps to curb industrial pollution, Reagan thinks pollution comes only from volcanoes and trees...