Word: containable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CFIA helps develop the military strength of reactionary governments to contain popular uprisings and paves the way for foreign investment," SDS spokesperson Ira D. Helfand '71 said in the highly-publicized debate...
...about abolishing the irs and replacing it with "a flatter, fairer, simpler" income tax. Though Republicans know well from experience the appeal of tax reform, Dole runs a risk by adopting the supply-side theories he has long disparaged and swelling a deficit he has fought, often courageously, to contain...
This brings in the sticky issue of how Harvard admissions manage to be both need-blind and ensure socioeconomic diversity. When Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis was asked, her answer did not contain the words "need," "economic," or "income." Instead, she talked about racial and regional diversity as if they were the same thing...
...mortar site first, then deliberately aimed the airburst shells at the compound in the hopes of nailing the fighters. Van Kappen's monograph did not go so far as to make this accusation explicit--although the U.S., which fears that the report may jeopardize a new agreement to contain the war between Israel and Hizballah, is apparently interpreting it in this light...
...tight 5-4 vote to curtail punitive damage awards from juries. The court struck down as "grossly excessive" a $2 million award won by an Alabama doctor dissatisfied with his BMW. Althought businesses around the country hailed today's decision as a victory, the ruling did not contain any new legal guidelines for future punitive damages caps. The Court only made clear that the awards in this case were excessive and "transcended the constitutional limit". Among the dissenting judges, Antonin Scalia wrote for himself and Clarence Thomas that the ruling is "an unjustified incursion into the province of state governments...