Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada suffers most severely. Environmental officials project the loss of 48,000 lakes by the end of the century if nothing is done to curb acid rain. Already, 2,000 to 4,000 lakes in Ontario have become so acidified that they can no longer support trout and bass, and some 1,300 more in Quebec are on the brink of destruction. In Nova Scotia, nine rivers used as spawning grounds by Atlantic salmon in the spring no longer teem with fish...
Supporters of the proposed anti-seizure bill, however, such as the New England Anti-Vivisection League and the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, have been campaigning for 10 years to curb such practices. "The argument is one of humanity," said Edward Cotter, the legislative lobbyist for the proposed bill. "Many of these dogs were once people's pets," he said...
...Washington. West Germany is suffering its worst economic troubles in 30 years, and that fact severely restricts Kohl in working out nagging differences with the U.S. Sharp disagreements, inherited from Schmidt's days, remain focused on the Soviet pipeline controversy, nuclear defense policy and recent U.S. efforts to curb West European steel imports...
That is precisely General Wojciech Jaruzelski's dilemma. The new threats may do little more than further diminish morale and productivity, while failing to curb political dissent. But if Jaruzelski does not crack down, he may face difficult challenges from increasingly impatient hard-liners within his own regime. One such warning came last week at a Central Committee meeting when a letter from former Politburo Member Tadeusz Grabski was circulated accusing the government of allowing Poland to slide into anarchy. Any new power struggle among Poland's Communists would not only jeopardize Jaruzelski's hold on power...
Mendès France believed his country should forget its grand imperial illusions and curb centralized executive power. During his brief, 7½-month tenure as Premier, he pledged to end France's Indochina war within one month (and did so), gave autonomy to Tunisia and persuaded France's National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple Fran...