Word: restrictiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Poland watchers are in agreement on one point: he is a loyal apparatchik with orthodox views and no inclination to buck Moscow. "Kania's advent does not bode well for people espousing reform," says Richard Davies, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland. "He can be expected to try to restrict the realization of the agreement with the workers." Another analyst puts it more harshly: "Of all the people they could have picked, he is one of the toughest...
...order to restrict those fishing trips, the House and Senate Judiciary committees have written bills that make the searches conducted under the Supreme Court's Stanford Daily decision illegal. The bills would make it necessary for police to subpoena material they think they need from reporters. "You know who's going to pass it for us?" asks Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "The cops in Flint and Boise. It ought to be called the Police Department Memorial Bill...
...festive spirit of Commencement has a longstanding heritage. Morison describes the development of Commencement from "a purely literary occasion" to a "sort of puritan midsummer's holiday." In 1681, when President Oakes perished shortly before Commencement, the authorities seeking a sober ceremony felt compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines...
This "seed money," which totals $80,000 for this year, lets the researcher explore new ideas developed during research, a practice which the traditional grants restrict, Sarofim said...
Beyond reining in consumer expectations, several basic, if familiar, steps are necessary. The first is to reduce the previously excessive growth of money and credit in order to restrain demand and restore stability. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has started a series of necessary credit-tightening measures to restrict demand. The second step is to limit severely government spending at the federal, state and local levels. The third step is to increase the supply of goods by giving tax incentives for saving and investment and to relax the regulations that force business to channel scarce capital into projects that...