Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high time for the administration to take action to curb student fears that they are being indirectly victimized by certain professors' objectionable pasts...
...Ways and Means Committee approved for floor action a bill that would slash U.S. imports of textiles and clothing, primarily from East Asia, as much as 40%. In the Republican- controlled Senate, sponsors rewrote a companion bill to snare as many votes as possible. The new Senate version would curb imports of shoes in order to catch the votes of Senators outside Southern textile states, while the textile provisions would be softened to fall most heavily on three nations (Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong), perhaps soothing Senators reluctant to antagonize all of Asia...
...textile, or textile-shoe, bill is the forerunner of more than 200 measures that would curb imports. There are bills that would reduce imports of ^ copper, timber, even roses and "waterbed mattresses, liners and parts thereof"; bills that would penalize all imports from particular countries --mainly Japan, naturally--or groups of countries; bills that would require regular intervention in exchange markets. Many are based on a crude idea of reciprocity: buy more from us or we will buy less from you. Thus a bill drafted by Democrats, but boasting strong Republican support as well, would slap a 25% penalty tariff...
...insurance shock is forcing communities to curb services and boost taxes. Northfield (Ill.) Township High School District 225 canceled its summer basketball and baseball programs this year for lack of coverage. In Blue Island (pop. 22,000), a Chicago suburb, citizens held a noisy meeting last month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from...
...declared in his first address as head of state that Buhari was "too rigid and uncompromising." Later the new President repealed a law that banned criticism of the government, released several journalists from prison, reviewed the cases of an estimated 500 political prisoners jailed by Buhari, and promised to curb excesses by the secret police. Radio Lagos reported he had also approved the appointment of 28 military and police officers to the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council. Perhaps the most important promise made by the new military leaders was to reopen stalled talks with the International Monetary Fund on rescheduling...