Word: restrictiveness
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...Faculty should restrict its formal votes to matters in which it has a direct concern and on which its members are more professionally qualified. Kenneth Arrow, professor of Economics, said that the Faculty's votes last spring on Afro-American Studies and ROTC were examples of proper Faculty action n social issues directly within its concern...
...High a Price. As long as inflation forces the U.S. to restrict the money supply, states and cities will be at a disadvantage in competing against corporations for scarce investment funds. Some local governments may be able to increase taxes or find other ways to raise construction money. But most of the public facilities that were to have been financed by the unsuccessful bond issues probably will be long delayed, if not shelved entirely. That is part of the price that the U.S. must pay for having allowed inflation to rage unchecked for too long. The price, however, is being...
...Three months ago, after the "Grand Coalition" Cabinet adopted the Socialist view, a revolt broke out in the ranks of the Chris tian Democrats. It was led by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss's Bavarian branch of the party. The Bavarians, who argue that it is time to restrict the search for war criminals to major offenders, demanded a so-called "differentiated approach." It would treat the criminals who gave the orders for genocide and massacres far more severely than those who carried them out or were involved in lesser crimes. Fearing that he would be outflanked by Strauss...
Fitzgerald's cause came to the attention of Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, one of the military's harshest critics. Overcoming an attempt by Pentagon officials to restrict Fitzgerald's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, Proxmire then launched into a smooth exchange with his prize witness. The dialogue was so smooth, in fact, that some observers wondered if the lines had not been well rehearsed in advance...
...become increasingly alarmed by the shrinkage of its trade surplus from $7 billion in 1964 to less than $1 billion last year. Washington has reacted by putting up barriers against products as diverse as Mexican tomatoes and European and Japanese steel. Since January, Congressmen have filed 300 bills to restrict imports of lamb, baseball gloves, artificial sweeteners and other products...