Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as the advertisements appeared on business pages announcing this latest megabuck merger, a congressional committee opened hearings on proposals by the Securities and Exchange Commission that would curb some of the wheeling and dealing that accompanies such corporate marriages. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance, is supporting the SEC recommendations. Says he: "The tactics and strategies used by both bidders and targets in recent years have raised questions about the adequacy of current laws to a ensure the fundamental fairness of the takeover process. In the heat of a contest...
...President curb his country's murder squads...
...policy has begun to undermine the values of both history and ideology. Peasants are reluctant to join collective projects or to tend such communal needs as village irrigation when they can make more money by tilling their own fields. Self-sufficiency has prompted others to evade the law. To curb population growth, the government has forced women to use birth-control devices, agree to be sterilized or undergo abortions, while also decreeing that those with more than one child must lose 10% of their income for at least five years. Some affluent farmers, however, are no longer deterred...
...proposal is the Reagan Administration's latest move in its attempt to curb the release of information it deems militarily sensitive. The current proposal goes well beyond what universities have tolerated in the past and many officials view it as a violation of researchers rights to publish...
...marriage to Tereza does not curb Tomás' appetite for other women: "Why then give them up? He saw no more reason for that than to deny himself soccer matches." But Sabina, a painter who is his favorite mistress of the moment, senses a change: "Showing through the outline of Tomás the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover." Then it is 1968, a time of more violent change for the entire country. Tomás and Tereza emigrate to Zurich, where he has been promised a job in a prominent hospital. Sabina goes...