Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both men have pledged to work for more jobs to ease Brazil's combined unemployment and underemployment rate of 40% and curb its 218% annual inflation...
...Western business suits, and they spoke a cacophony of languages. More than 3,000 delegates from 148 nations crowded into Mexico City's Tlaltelolco Center last week to attend the second United Nations-sponsored International Conference on Population. Their purpose was nothing less than to find ways to curb the growth of the world's population, which threatens nearly to double to 8.3 billion by the year...
...that for the first time a women's road race was scheduled for the Olympics, Carpenter returned to training for what she called "the one last race of my life." Last week, exhausted and just meters from the end, she lunged her bike, like a kid jumping a curb, to victory only inches ahead of Teammate Rebecca Twigg. With that, Carpenter entered the record books as the first woman in history to win an Olympic cycling event and the first American to be awarded gold in the sport (the single previous U.S. medal: a bronze...
...anxious to get their money out of the country. Three days later Labor Party Leader David Lange (pronounced Long-ee), who will be the next Prime Minister, announced an economic package that includes a 20% currency devaluation. Lange also proposed a removal of interest-rate controls, a three-month curb on prices and professional fees, and a review of export incentives. The Reserve Bank, breaking with precedent, hailed the plan; even the Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand, the Most Rev. Paul Reeves, abandoned his ecclesiastical silence and called on the country to support those working...
...that getting the necessary cooperation from private citizens may also prove to be difficult. Industrial firms and other property owners have traditionally resisted attempts by state or local authorities to tell them how they can use their land. Maryland's watermen have always opposed efforts to make them curb their catches, although a growing number of them now grudgingly concede that more controlled harvesting is necessary...