Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Medical and scientific promise, however, should not eclipse the importance of public policy efforts to curb heavy drinking among adults -- and stop it altogether among youngsters and adolescents. Education is one approach. The Government's "Be Smart" campaign, aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, has had some success. Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been a primary factor in the fight that has raised drinking ages from 18 to 21 in 34 states plus the District of Columbia since 1982. Despite strong opposition from the alcohol industry, which lobbies vigorously against higher excise taxes for alcohol and warning labels...
...greenback must continue to fall, say many economists and now the Administration, if the U.S. is to curb its ruinous trade deficit. But no one can argue that such a strategy offers a simple and painless cure for America's economic ills. On the contrary, the perils are enormous and the effectiveness is uncertain. The immediate challenge for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury is to control the dollar's descent -- no easy feat -- and prevent a free fall, which would scare off foreign investors, drive up U.S. interest rates and perhaps cause another panic on Wall Street...
...Black Monday the Dow Jones industrial average plunges by 22.6%, far more than on the worst day of 1929. As stock prices fluctuate wildly through most of the week, the crisis spotlights Washington' s failure to curb Government spending and borrowing. Few economists expect another Great Depression, but a recession is more likely now. -- In an exclusive interview, Treasury Secretary James Baker gives the Administration' s view of the tumult. -- One way or another, everyone is in the market, and anyone can lose. -- Wall Street' s investment houses brace for hard times. -- Some prescient and lucky investors survive the crash...
This week, major exchanges are closing early to help curb the enormous amount of paperwork that built up from last week's record selloff...
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth has been frowning at the traditional champagne celebration of the victorious. The winner of this Series is warned to curb its winos or risk losing the liquor license forever. When pro football banned those unseemly scenes in 1973, a Miami tackle named Manny Fernandez was particularly indignant. He whined, "I don't drink champagne because it's too tough on my stomach, but I'd like to pour it on somebody," prompting Red Smith to mutter, "For barbarians like that, Dr Pepper's too good...