Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiction in general. His opinions are marked by their forthrightness, as in his assertion that he's "saving Virginia Woolf for when I'm dead," or his hilarious skewering of Marquezian pyrotechnics; "A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony....Ah, the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing; ah the fredonna tree whose root grow at the tips of its branches, and whose fibers assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner...
...like to impose bans on certain categories of novel: those in which a group of people, isolated by circumstance, revert to the "natural condition" of man; novels about incest; those set in Oxford or Cambridge. He would also impose a quota system on fiction set in South America, "to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony...
...invaded Cyprus with NATO arms, and since then it has occupied 37% of the island. Neither Turkey nor Greece has any business being in Cyprus. Cyprus is not Greek territory, but there are ethnic bonds of language, culture and history between Greece and Cyprus. What has NATO done to curb Turkish aggression...
...State of the Union address came during a week of extraordinary economic and political activity in Washington. On Monday the President sent to Congress his budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning next Oct. 1, and it was anything but cheery. In an effort to curb the deficit monster, Reagan asked for a total spending increase of just 1.5%, the lowest such rise in 21 years, which would force severe cutbacks or the outright cancellation of many domestic programs. The proposed slashes in spending sent out shock waves to states and cities across the nation, as Governors and mayors calculated...
...Congress will be to tackle the budget deficit. President Reagan will make the initial move early in 1985 by proposing a new round of cuts in domestic spending. But the Democrats, and some Republicans, are not likely to go along unless the White House agrees to curb military spending and raise taxes. For the moment, Reagan is adamantly against a tax hike. Despite the urgency of the challenge, Congress and the White House seem no closer to resolving the budget dilemma than when it first arose in 1981. Only by breaking the gridlock can they ensure that the prosperity...