Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...warheads and missiles) to arrive in Western Europe under NATO'S 1979 "two track" decision. That policy asserted that NATO would begin modernizing the alliance's nuclear armory by the end of this year if the U.S. and the Soviet Union do not reach an agreement to curb intermediate-range nuclear weapons. For a moment after the plane cut its jet engines, there was a stunned silence among about 100 female peace demonstrators from the camp set up outside the base for 26 months to protest the new U.S. weapons. Then came screams as the women pounded...
...other hand, Teller, who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb, acknowledged that while the development of such weapons will prove scientifically difficult, it is necessary to curb a growing Soviet military threat...
Independent tests conducted last week indicate that Cambridge drinking water does not contain unusually high levels of suspected cancer-causing chemicals, but the city will still take steps to curb the contaminants, City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday...
...recognize that some proponents of the initiative believe strongly that the Act will send a much-needed "message" to Washington emphasizing the importance of serious steps to curb the arms race. I sympathize with these underlying concerns. And yet, there are other ways to "send a message" to Washington that do not endanger the jobs of Cambridge residents or infringe upon academic freedom or subject professors to the threat of civil suit or criminal prosecution for carrying on their research. I hope that you will join me in defending our tradition of free inquiry even as we work for other...