Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington's policymakers were less confident. Fretted Republican Jake Garn of Utah, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee: "There's more than the normal level of uncertainty in the economy." Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker warned that the current expansion is in "growing jeopardy" unless the U.S. can curb its burgeoning trade deficit, which reached a record $148.5 billion last year...
...requests for military assistance from Peru, Ecuador and Colombia -- countries that, along with Bolivia, produce almost all the cocaine sold in the U.S. and Western Europe. Moreover, the day after U.S. forces landed in Bolivia, President Reagan's senior aides met in the White House to discuss steps to curb America's demand for drugs...
...clone the features from the PC. Chatsworth, Calif.-based Tandon, which originally built disk drives for IBM, announced last week that it would begin marketing an IBM-compatible that features its own integrated circuit technology. Tandon, which expects to charge $1,155 for its new machine, is able to curb costs by manufacturing some of its components at plants in India...
...waited for a traffic light to change in Managua, a hotel driver named Andres Garcia idly furled and unfurled a tiny American flag that he had been given while making a delivery to the U.S. embassy. A passing policeman, seeing the flag, pulled Garcia, 45, over to the curb and searched him. He discovered U.S. dollars in the driver's pocket and promptly threw him in jail...
...will visit South Africa in the hope of establishing a dialogue between the country's government officials and black leaders. The Europeans also declared that in three months they will decide on "further measures" that might be needed, including a ban on new investments in South Africa and a curb on the import of South African coal, iron and steel, and gold coins...