Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement comes not a moment too soon, because the oil industry may be facing rough times. When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries failed last week to reach a meaningful pact to curb production, the price of oil futures plunged from $18 per bbl. to $15.58. If prices collapse, at least Pennzoil and Texaco can start putting their resources into the businesses again instead of into the pockets of their lawyers...
That boost in productivity will help U.S. companies to curb costs and keep prices under control. "We're going to have productivity-led growth," says Yardeni of Prudential-Bache. "And that doesn't necessarily push inflation rates higher." Among the economists polled, the median forecast for next year's increase in the Consumer Price Index was 4.6%, virtually the same as the 4.3% rise currently projected...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan said yesterday that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev agreed to drop demands for restrictions on the Star Wars program, but Secretary of State George P. Shultz said he did not sense any Kremlin departure from its insistence on linking long-range weapons cuts to a curb in the American missile-defense initiative...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded three days of summit talks yesterday reporting progress but no agreement to curb long-range strategic weapons and no deal on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan...
...vehicles since the horse-drawn carriage -- four-wheel steering turns the wheels simultaneously at both ends of the car. The idea is intuitively appealing to any city driver who has ever pulled up to a too-short parking space and wished he could point all four tires toward the curb and crab right...