Word: straitjacket
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...demanded research and curiosity. He wanted you to ask, to probe, to argue. The two issues he emphasized were the necessity for Islam and Iran to be independent of both Eastern and Western colonialism and the need to get the clergy put of the mold of an academic straitjacket. He said the clergy had a responsibility for humanity not only in Iran but wherever people were hungry and oppressed. In this way Khomeini trained 1,200 religious leaders who are the elite of the country today...
Democratic congressional leaders, meanwhile, insist that they are sympathetic to demands for a balanced budget but do not want to risk the potential chaos of a convention or the straitjacket that an amendment could place on economic policy. These legislators argue that they should take no action until after full discussion. But to some critics, this seems like a strategy for stretching out hearings in the hope that the public's interest will wane before a the public's interest will wane before a vote has to be taken. The Senate held one hearing in early March...
Board members pointed out that an amendment to balance the budget would straitjacket the economy, particularly during a recession, when deficit spending often is prudent to spur a recovery. Otto Eckstein noted that because tax revenues fall during a recession, Congress would have to raise taxes in order to balance the budget, and that would bury the economy even deeper...
...Yellen, is that Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, two brilliant writers and decent, caring human beings, were unable to know each other, to love each other. He attempts to explain Lewis' problem in the final scene, where Dern, who has gotten drunk and become violent, sits strapped in a straitjacket and launches into a lengthy monologue as Lewis's father, revealing the old man's perpetual dissatisfaction with his son. The speech should be a tour-de-force--Dern does a beautiful job with it--but it is so empty in concept, so obvious in construction, that it reveals nothing...
...given jurisdiction over trucking by Congress in 1935. During the next four decades the ice proceeded to put trucking into the same straitjacket that it had fashioned for railroads. Truck routes were spelled out in minute detail New lines were permitted to enter interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average...