Word: curbed
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...industrial West. Thus the current fears about the potential threat to Pakistan from Soviet legions on the other side of the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan may give way within a few years to even deeper dismay over Pakistan's seeming inability to heal its ethnic divisions, curb its birth rate and ultimately feed its people. The collapse of Pakistan from within-and Pakistan is just one example-could have serious repercussions throughout its region: renewed warfare with India over Kashmir, say, or the spread of tribal warfare into Iran...
...final decisions on spending will be taken by Congress. During his term, Carter made sporadic attempts to reduce outlays. He offered new legislation to force hospitals to curb Medicare costs, a plan to trim student-loan programs and even a quixotic proposal to pare Social Security payments. But these efforts were all stillborn on Capitol Hill. Laments one Carter lieutenant, looking back on the experience: "Just about every time we went to Congress, we got massacred...
...advocates of handgun control have made no effort to convince American hunters that they have nothing to fear from the passage of federal legislation designed to curb the spread of handguns. Until such assurances are forthcoming, efforts to limit the availability of handguns will continue to be unsuccessful, and the threat posed by the armed criminal will continue to hang over...
Bloated beyond its architects' intent, welfarism is threatening bankruptcy in some countries. Attempts to curb its excesses are beginning to cause political disruption and even social unrest. In France and Britain, labor unions and other groups have demonstrated against cutbacks in medical and education benefits. In Belgium and The Netherlands, attempts to slash welfare spending have helped trigger Cabinet crises, along with protests involving workers, students, doctors and even pharmacists. In Sweden, long a model of social consensus, unions and employers paralyzed the country last spring with nine days of work stoppages over wage claims that eventually forced...
...forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb," she advised, "and pretty soon somebody will come along in a car and recognize me and offer us a lift." (She was right...