Word: braked
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...does Pat clue you in on how he got into your car to put down your emergency brake, tune the radio to WAAF, the heavy metal station, and catalogue all your belongings (all the way down to the half-empty bag of chips and spilled lemonade under the passenger's seat) for the official record on the back of your receipt...
...disclosures led Phar-Mor to lay off 100 of its 800 headquarters employees and could brake the chain's headlong expansion. Beginning with a single store a decade ago, Phar-Mor grew to 305 outlets in 33 states and employs 23,000 workers...
...specifics. Palestinian negotiators would like this approach, and anticipate that Rabin's basic proposal for autonomy will be, in spokeswoman Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi's words, "much more comprehensive and serious" than Shamir's. But they are looking first for some tangible gestures to set the right tone: a complete brake on settlements and an end to harsh occupation rules...
...course, exactly what would have happened had they never tried their putsch. But quite likely their continued presence in the government would have forced repeated compromises that would have kept a brake on reform and democratization of Soviet society. The new treaty of union the putschists acted to forestall would have been signed and kept at least some of the bigger republics in a union with a weakened but functioning central government. The Communist Party, though declining, might have retained considerable influence...
...principle" the Baltics' right to independence. He was always quick to add his insistence that the leaders in those republics pursue their goal by "constitutional means." Everyone knew what that phrase meant: a slow process during which the central government would try to control both the throttle and the brake...