Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month the Japanese hinted that they may be willing to curb car exports to the U.S. for a fourth consecutive year. Tokyo, however, will probably seek to raise the ceiling to some 2 million cars, up from the current level of 1.76 million. The two countries are expected to reach agreement before President Reagan visits Tokyo in November...
...Cambridge Licensing Commission denied Ruggles' license application amidst neighborhood lobbying to curb the flow of alcohol in the Square. The State Alcoholic Beverages Commission subsequently rejected an appeal on the local decision...
...seriously harm the partnership that has developed between the state and students on drunk driving. Thus far, both parties have worked together in alerting the public to the dangers and penalties involved. The relationship has been mutually beneficial: the state has had an easier time in its efforts to curb drunk driving and students have an opportunity to have a role in shaping positive policies which to a large extent affect them...
...criminal record who was returning from a nightly visit to his mother's apartment. The cops said they thought Bowden was driving a car reported earlier that day in connection with an armed holdup in Cambridge (they were wrong). The officers blocked Bowden from pulling away from the curb near his mother's housing project, approached the car and put three bullets in his head...
...outstripped new sources of supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...