Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's crises also centered on the failure of tolerance, on the community's inability to live together peacably. Outrage flared in March when Cambridge police pulled two Black students off a University shuttle bus, searched them and left them on the curb without explanation. Police said they mistook the pair for a white suspect in a nearby convenience store robbery and defended the officers' behavior as "proper and professional...
...automakers will be required to raise the average fuel efficiency of their fleets to 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26.5 m.p.g. this year. That is a step in the right direction, but an extremely timid one. The Government should be setting much higher goals. An even quicker way to curb fuel consumption would be to boost the gasoline tax, but Bush seems to be locked $ into his "Read my lips" campaign pledge to avoid new taxes...
...world's nations have declared their aim of phasing out production of ozone-destroying CFCs by the end of the century. But that is not good enough for the environment-conscious citizens of Vermont. Governor Madeleine Kunin will soon sign state legislation designed to curb the chemicals more swiftly. Starting in 1993, selling new cars that use CFCs in air conditioners will be illegal in Vermont...
...press conference at which the plan was announced. He went on to castigate the administration of Mayor Marion Barry, saying it "has failed to serve its citizens." Finally, he disclosed a set of measures that may put more dealers behind bars but is likely to do little to curb rampant drug use. Local police will get help from 82 federal agents. A 500-bed detention facility will be built in the District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds instead of the 1,040 the city asked...
...months. Last week the futures price of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, reached $20.15 a bbl., up some 50% since last October. The rally largely reflects an unexpectedly successful campaign by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, along with several non-OPEC countries, to curb their output and reduce the world's oversupply. Since early January, OPEC production has fallen about 3.5 million bbl. a day, to some 19 million...