Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rapped in about five layers of clothing I trudged through the Arctic chill blowing along the Charles River, looking for the site of MIT's third annual luau. I knew I was getting close when I saw a car parked on the curb with a large bumper sticker that said, "Aloha spirit. Don't leave home without it." I quickly made my way toward the warm glow emanating from Walker Memorial Hall where I was greeted with the brimming smiles of friends from back home, tropical flowers, and beautiful Hawaiian music...
...should be proud of President Clinton and his many accomplishments in trying to keep the world at peace. He has supervised the best economy in decades and tried to reduce crime, cut welfare rolls, curb unemployment and improve education. Shame on those who have made his time in office unbearable! MARGOT HOYLEN Deming...
...statesman who helped guide a junior Senator from Massachusetts to the White House, becoming a member of John Kennedy's first Cabinet; in New York City. In 1956, as Governor of the Constitution State, Ribicoff suspended 10,346 driver's licenses--compared with 372 in the previous year--to curb speeding; as a Senator, he combatted de facto desegregation in the North. Ribicoff prized civility, but his career was branded by a fiery, televised image of him on the podium at the 1968 Democratic Convention, railing against the "Gestapo tactics" of Chicago's police...
Winter, too, finds that documentation helps to curb the market for looted objects...
Each of these phenomena can boost or curb the effects of El Nino. But do they influence each other at a deeper level? Does El Nino trigger any of these other cycles? Is it triggered by them? To find out, Fairbanks turned to the Indian Ocean, where sea-surface temperatures, it turns out, rise and fall in response to both the monsoonal cycle and the El Nino cycle...