Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blink of an eye these days, a carefully built construct of regulations can be blown away without so much as a formal hearing. As part of a crusade to curb federal authority, and with only a simple assertion that the regulations are burdensome, two congressional committees have sent to the floor for a vote this week legislation that would repeal federal standards. There would be no protection against patients' being restrained, no standards on staffing or when someone could be discharged after using up all his or her money. Niceties like nurses would be optional, since there is no requirement...
Eager to save this irreplaceable scientific resource--yet mindful that the Galapagos generate as much as $60 million annually in tourism revenues--the national government has tried to curb the worst excesses. But it has not provided park officials with the backing they need to fight poachers or to wipe out introduced species, and it has come under intense pressure from fishermen, corrupt politicians and a charismatic leader named Eduardo Veliz, the Galapagos' delegate to the National Congress. Tapping into widespread local resentment, Veliz pushed a law through the Congress that would give the islands enormous autonomy in setting their...
...leadership. We are doing business with a man who over the course of 35 years has been responsible for the deaths of many Jews. We are anxious for peace, but Arafat must assure the world that he can be trusted. We strongly support the efforts he has taken to curb terrorism...
...more important than balancing the federal budget. And when the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press asked seniors to choose between the Republicans and President Clinton on the Medicare issue, the seniors preferred Clinton by better than 2 to 1. The President's plan would curb spending by $124 billion over 10 years...
Last year, Houghton stepped off a curb in Williamstown, Mass. and was struck by a car. He now walks with a cane...