Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before 1900 everything was simpler, Spock said. But people "inhibit themselves" by knowing about Oedipus complexes and the like, he added. He advised young parents--there were many of them in the audience--to reset a little less cautiously and somewhat more instinctively to their tots' extreme demands...
...resting the national economic welfare on a game of chance." Addressing the "Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963," a group formed at the Administration's urging and including such big names as Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller and Frederic Donner, Kennedy said Byrnes's rider would inhibit rather than stimulate investment, thus nullifying the purpose of the tax cut. "This nation," he said, "has had a recession on the average of every 42 months since the second World War-or every 44 months since the first World War. By January, it will have been 44 months since...
What It Does & Doesn't. This treaty advances, though it does not assure world peace; and it will inhibit, though it does not prohibit, the nuclear arms race. While it does not prohibit the United States and the Soviet Union from engaging in all nuclear tests, it will radically limit the testing in which both nations would otherwise engage. While it will not end the threat of nuclear war or outlaw the use of nuclear weapons, it can reduce world tensions, open a way to further agreements and thereby help to ease the threat of war. While it cannot...
...trouble with all these treatments, says Food Biologist Karakian ("Kutty") Bedrosian, is that they fail to take account of the fact that the produce itself wants to die. "The problem today is not bacteria, but to control or inhibit the enzyme activity by which fresh food ripens and then becomes rotten." Satisfied that modern techniques of refrigeration and decontamination are more than equal to handling harmful bacteria, Kutty went to work to cure fresh food's tendency toward self-destruction...
...office itemized reports of all expenditures and liabilities over $50 that were incurred during the two week inter-vale. Among the first candidates this law would affect were the Senatorial contenders Ted Kennedy and George Lodge. Presumably, the prospect of campaign finances being open for public inspection would inhibit the candidates and their committees from amassing distastefully large expenditures. The public would be likely to react against one canddate who was spending two or three times as much as another...