Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, Los Angeles is taking steps to curb what blacks claim has been a quick-triggered police department...
...Following the funeral of one of the attack victims, gangs of Jewish settlers, many carrying automatic weapons, rampaged through Hebron, firing into the air, smashing windows in homes and cars owned by Arabs, and attempting to break into stores. Israeli soldiers on the scene made only intermittent attempts to curb the violence...
...abstaining on these two resolutions, the CCSR has essentially voted "no"--no to moderate shareholder resolutions to curb the apartheid regime; no to students at Harvard who have lobbied the University for three years to take action against South African racism; and, worst of all, no to the Black South Africans who suffer as a result...
...Britain, economic policy dominates all else, and Thatcher repeats her tenets like a mantra: curb inflation, increase productivity, cut spending, restore incentive. She pleads for time-at least two more years-to let her new "freedoms" work, but even among allies there is some skepticism. Complains a Tory newspaper publisher: "She didn't tell us it would be this bad." Her own Treasury ministers warn that much rougher tunes lie ahead, and some are queasy about the next election, even though it is probably four years away. The statistics of Thatcher's first year are grim. Inflation doubled...
Even when corporations "legally" operate within state-ordained guidelines, the American "economic government" enjoys an influence that a laissez-faire government is helpless to curb. Tiny groups of executives make far-reaching--and often haphazard--decisions about how much to pollute the environment, what minorities to hire and what foreign governments to stabilize or oppose...