Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gubernatorial race, brash Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb, 37, lost to Attorney General George Deukmejian, 53. Two weeks before the vote, when Curb was ahead in the polls, he sent out 500,000 letters accusing Deukmejian of disloyalty to President Reagan. The charge backfired: for one thing, Deukmejian had been a floor leader for Reagan when he was California's Governor; for another, it was discovered that Curb failed to register to vote until he was 29 and thus missed two chances to cast ballots for Reagan as Governor. The Democratic gubernatorial winner was Tom Bradley, 64, mayor...
Later, as John Paul moved through the streets of Buenos Aires in his Papamovil, an Indian woman knelt at the curb praying, "Let him hear my sorrow. Let God's light breathe life into the fallen." Reflected one young university student on the Pope's message: "I love my country. Our cause is just. But I love God more than the Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements...
...most vocal of the new activists. "We have a reputation for being moderate," he says acidly, charging that "Argentine bishops have not spoken out strongly enough against injustice" in the country. "Had we taken a stronger stand, much suffering could have been avoided." What might have worked to curb the excesses of the "dirty war" might also have helped in the Falklands dispute, suggests Nevares. "Had we been given notice of the government's intention to acquire the Malvinas, we might have been able to resolve things in a more peaceful way and avoid...
Even as helicopters were depositing the seven heads of government on the lawn at Versailles Friday evening, their aides were negotiating what amounted to a trade-off between the Europeans' views on money-market intervention and the prime American demand for some kind of curb on lending to the U.S.S.R. and allies. Economically, it was not very logical: the issues of currency fluctuations and loans to the Soviet bloc have almost nothing to do with each other. Politically, though, the logic was inarguable: each side would get something, though very far from all that it wanted...
...fans, Angell remains calm: "The startling new salaries may represent both a contemporary reality and a historical inevitability, and are thus perhaps best approached with curiosity rather than horror." But four springs later he is horrified at what money is doing to baseball. The owners are trying to curb their own profligacy by shackling the players, who are threatening to strike. The Yankees have promised to pay Dave Winfield something like $20 million for ten years of play. Angell mourns: "The top salary figures, whatever their explanation, are beyond ignoring and beyond rational defense, for they deform and shame...