Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YEAR in office, President Reagan has not only transgressed the line of prudence, but left it light years behind him. Congress and the nation must curb this sell-off. The pending discussion in Congress of the Pakistan deal and the imminent proposal for Jordan provide just the occasion for reassessment and reversal. Exactly why the Jordanians need more weapons is one more Administration fantasy that could use clarification; they have one of the best equipped and trained armies in the Mideast and have just signed a pact for $360 million in anti-aircraft batteries with--you guessed it--Moscow...
...happened tow weeks before, Olympic trials in the summer of 1980. I was jogging. I stopped off a curb and into a pothole. My knee were one way and I went the other," Gildea remembers...
Many union leaders grumble that they are being unfairly called upon to fight a battle that Washington should be waging, and are demanding that the Administration take some action to curb the recession. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland last month blasted Reagan's economic program as "a hodgepodge of crank monetarism and bizarre macroeconomic nostrums," and urged the White House to take immediate steps to ease unemployment. Among the AFL-CIO'S recommendations: revive the emergency local public works program, budgeted at $6 billion in 1975 but not funded since then; restore CETA public service jobs; and create...
...based political parties. But Sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim of the American University in Cairo observes, "He is not doing things that antagonize the militants. He gives an image of being clean, firm and fair." The fundamentalists, in fact, approve of Mubarak's campaign against corruption, his proposal to curb luxury imports, and his studiously private family life. "Some of the militants think he is redeemable and that they can establish a dialogue with him," says Ibrahim. Explains Mohammed Heikal, the influential former editor of the daily al Ahram, who was among those Mubarak freed: "No self-respecting Egyptian...
...Stephenson, 49, has revolutionized it. He has designed a chair that runs on belts like a tank, rather than the usual bicycle wheels. In contrast to wheels, which can be stopped by an obstruction like a garden hose, Stephenson's traction belts can negotiate a step, a curb or a grade. The design is still on the drawing boards...