Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check out the Square first and, if there isn't a long line of cabs idling there already, he'll wait for his first fare. But like a nocturnal scavenger, Arthur doesn't like to wait, and when he finds about a dozen lethargic cabbies along the curb of Mass Ave, he speeds across the Commons to the cabbie stand at the Sheraton Commander. But Arthur's strategy, he knows, is a game of chance. "Sometimes you can just kind of die at a stand. I could pull in there and have to wait and by then I might have...
...women and one of the men, drinks still in hand, eye Arthur's dented generic cab suspiciously, then climb in the back seat. "Good night, Charles," one of the women says to the fourth member of the party, who waves from the curb. "We had a marvelous time." Then, turning to Arthur, "Ritz Carlton...
...United States missed several opportunities to prevent the establishment of South Korea's current military regime and has failed to exert its influence to try and curb the regime's repressive policies, an expert on Korean affairs told an audience of 150 last night...
...Hughes loan made for bad press during Richard Nixon's 1960 presidential campaign, and the candidate made repeated efforts to curb brother Don's financial gamesmanship. For his part, Don tried to avoid publicity. "They call me 'Big Don,'" he once said. "I'm larger than Richard. I'm not a public figure--I'm just a fellow trying to make a living. I don't want to be in the limelight...
...point is not that Europeans may be richer than Americans but that they are reluctant to follow what they regard as a faltering U.S. leadership. Instead, they are impressed by the U.S. unwillingness or inability to curb its wasteful energy consumption and 'to defend its shrinking currency. "The Americans view the future with less hope than at any time since World War II, and they have every reason for their skepticism," says Dieter Buhl, who writes on U.S. affairs for Hamburg's influential Die Zeit. "Galloping inflation and record interest rates undermine their standard of living, which...