Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unalloyed optimism. The report admitted that the overall improvement "has not been as great as hoped" and that "serious problems remain." On the issue of human rights, the report claimed that the government of President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña "is making a concerted and significant effort" to curb violations. The study presented statistics from five sources showing that the number of civilian deaths from political violence has dropped considerably. Said Enders: "All available evidence suggests that the most serious violations are on a slow, downward curve...
...Japanese about the problems they were creating for the U.S. semiconductor industry. In February, Administration officials let it be known that the White House was considering putting restrictions on Japanese chip sales in the U.S. The device was to be a rarely used law that allows the President to curb imports deemed to be a threat to national security. The rationale was that semiconductors are crucial components of weapons systems and that the U.S. should not become dependent on foreign suppliers...
...student demonstration at Bir Zeit University. Two days later, Israeli military authorities closed the university for three months. They also dismissed the mayor of Gaza, the patrician Rashad al Shawwa, 73, who thus became the sixth Arab mayor to be fired this year in the Israeli drive to curb Palestinian nationalism in the occupied territories...
...garnered prodigious growth and captured hefty shares of the world markets for autos, steel, shipbuilding, electronics and clothing. Nonetheless, sluggish growth in the West has started to cut into the demand for Asian exports. Moreover, tightening trade restrictions pose a threat to Asian economies. Japan, for example, had to curb its car exports to the U.S. and several European countries, after having been threatened with quotas...
Clearly, the Western nations have come to a critical juncture. They must, cool off popular expectations and change the more-more mentality that has favored present consumption over investment for the future. To do that, they will have to curb government spending, control inflation and bring down interest rates. The world may never return to the heady growth of the postwar years, but correct and consistent policies can get Western countries out of their long-running slump. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by D.L Cortu/Bonn and Frederick Ungeheuer/New York