Word: curbed
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This year, as part of the animal research protests a "dog pound seizer" bill was introduced and only narrowly defeated in the state legislature. On other fronts a statewide referendum passed which will curb nuclear waste disposal and, some scientists fear biomedical research which generates such waste as a by product. A city referendum will appear on the November ballot to ban nuclear development and research in Cambridge...
Everyone agrees that the budget deficit must be slashed, but when talk turns to methods of reaching that goal, the consensus collapses. President Reagan demands curb cuts in social spending, while many in Congress want to curb the defense budget and raise taxes. TIME'S Board of Economists concluded that the only feasible solution to the deficit problem is a compromise that combines all three achieving strategies. Said Alan Greenspan: "Compared with achieving arms control or peace in Lebanon, it should really be quite easy to resolve the budget crisis. All it requires is to get a handful...
...bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz, who plays my mother...
...Wednesday, however, the House Foreign Affairs Committee opted for a less generous compromise. It endorsed a plan worked out by Democrat Dante Fascell to give Reagan only $65 million in military aid for each of the next three fiscal years. It also attached eleven pages of conditions designed to curb human rights abuses by the Salvadoran government and to bring about "a dialogue, in good faith and without preconditions," between the government and the guerrillas. The aim is to achieve "an equitable political solution to the conflict." If the government refuses to participate, U.S. aid would be cut off within...
Unlike last year at Versailles, U.S. officials did not push the Europeans to curb trade with the Soviet Union. The U.S. case for such sanctions was weakened last week by a new report from the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. It concluded that U.S. embargoes designed to punish the Soviets for their actions in Afghanistan and Poland had no major effect on the Soviet economy. With that in mind, the Americans settled for a vague statement that urged Western nations not to give "preferential treatment" to trade with the East bloc...