Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social Relations concentrator, Gunnoe continued to play lacrosse for Baltimore-and Boston-area clubs, after he hung up his Crimson jersey. A Knee injury inflicted during a 1965 rugby match forced him to curb his activity, but Gunnoe still manages to run or swim nearly everyday...
...convert the building into luxury housing. In return for moving out, the Craigie tenants are seeking future guarantees about Harvard's commitment to low and moderate-income housing. Apparently Harvard's "policy" of ignoring tenant groups is no more than a strategy that HRE believes is most likely to curb tenant input into decisions involving the University's massive housing stock--one of the largest held by any Cambridge landlord...
...Congress looks for ways to curb military spending, it will have to focus on the uncontrolled cost of weapons. Not only are weapons far more expensive than they should be, they cost far more than was ever remotely anticipated. The expense of 50 major weapons currently being developed has leaped an average of 118% over earlier projections. Unanticipated inflation is responsible for about 70% of the cost overruns, a problem aggravated by chronic delays in production times. The rest is essentially due to the fact that the Pentagon and its contractors design and redesign weapons with little regard for time...
...enough to get some rudimentary democratic institutions and economic reforms in place, is in plenty of trouble on the ground in El Salvador; and it is couched in some of the more bellicose, almost hysterical idioms of Haigspeak back in Washington. But as long as the Administration seeks to curb the abuses of the regime and discourage the political ambitions of the military, providing American assistance against the guerrillas is a reasonable and responsible course. The humanitarian as well as geopolitical goal of the U.S. is to stop the escalation of violence in Central America, and that means exerting force...
...strong recovery from the recession that now grips the U.S. economy will be virtually impossible unless quick action is taken to curb record federal deficits and thus bring down oppressive interest rates. That was the somber verdict of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in New York City last week to review President Reagan's 1983 budget and assess its impact on the economy. The board applauded the dramatic progress that Reagan has made in cooling inflation and restoring incentives for investment, but feared that these gains could be erased by the deficits...