Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Council member Anthony D. Galluccio led an effort to remove the requirement that all tobacco products be kept behind cash registers in locked display cases away from customer reach. The provision was intended to curb youth smoking, according to Dempsey...
...This ordinance pales to what New York City's is now," agreed Councillor Kathleen L. Born. "It's astonishing that in Cambridge it has taken so long for us to fall in step with what appears to be a mainstream occurrence" to curb smoking nationwide...
...hearts survived for at least several hours -- one lasted more than a day. Because people and baboons are so closely related genetically, the human markings on the implanted pig hearts protected the transplants from swift rejection by the baboons. Even so, the Duke team had to use drugs to curb the longer-term rejection response...
...City Council voted Monday to postpone a decision on an ordinance which would dramatically curb smoking in local restaurants and bars...
What happened? In two words: Stanley Sporkin. In February the maverick federal judge rejected as inadequate the antitrust decree Gates had negotiated last summer with Assistant Attorney General Anne Bingaman, publically chastising the government's chief trustbuster for failing to curb what he viewed as Microsoft's abuse of a monopoly position. Both the government and Microsoft insist that one case had nothing to do with the other. But someone at Justice seemed to think they might be linked in the court of public opinion. The department assigned more lawyers to its investigation of the Intuit deal right after...