Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those concerned with controlling, or even limiting, the consumption of alcohol on campus, it is the inability to curb the problem which is most baffling...
...benefit cuts announced last June wereenacted to try to curb the yearly deficit theUniversity runs despite its almost $6 billionendowment...
...pulled away from the curb my entire body froze up. My formerly smooth, fluid motions became stiff and jerky. I felt myself turning red. Walrus, meanwhile, was not amused...
...woolly behemoth of the parallel park, a technique Rudy had neglected to teach me until the day before. Slowly I pulled up to the car in front, slowly I turned The wheel and began backing up and slowly, ever so slowly, I backed the car into the curb, coming to a halt with a gentle, yet firm thud. My test was over...
...their first real signs of strain since their euphoric takeover in January. The media were filled with images of the President sharing tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch program. Wounded Republicans cried foul, with Congressman John Boehner of Ohio declaring, "There is no tactic too shameless, too low or too outrageous for this White House." The G.O.P. was losing the food fight...