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Word: controlling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undermining rent control and the availability of affordable housing in our city, Proposition 1-2-3 hurts women and severely circumscribes our `choices' about where and how to live," Jackman added...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Prop 1-2-3 Foes Blast 'Misleading' Slogan | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

They lost because of stupid plays and bad luck. Watching their games turned into an exercise in blood pressure control...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...controversy revolves primarily around five words--the phrase "changing rent control" in the preamble and the words "if any" in a description of the new revenue that proponents say the measure would raise...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Referendum Will Get Day in Court Tomorrow | 9/19/1989 | See Source »

...West European governments are curbing their interventionist instincts and freeing businesses to make profits. Even when a socialist government was returned to power in France last year, it conceded the benefits of free enterprise by pledging not to renationalize the enterprises that its conservative predecessors had shifted to private control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charging Ahead Watch out, Washington and Moscow. | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...pressure amounts to unjustified foreign meddling and a blatant effort by the industrial nations to preserve their economic supremacy at the expense of the developing world. Brazilian President Jose Sarney has denounced the criticism of his country as "unjust, defamatory, cruel and indecent." How can Brazil be expected to control its economic development, he asks, when it is staggering under a $111 billion foreign-debt load? By what right does the U.S., which spews out more pollutants than any other nation, lecture poor countries like Brazil on their responsibilities to mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Playing with Fire | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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