Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military officers by taking away their commercial enterprises and party men by tightening up credit for money-losing state enterprises. If inflation runs...
...lower an elevated set point by decreasing a person's appetite. But they have added a new twist by also affecting the level of a chemical in the brain called serotonin. A shortage of this chemical has been linked to depression and other mental ills. Serotonin may curb the appetite by helping a person feel full and satisfied. And, it turns out, a growing body of research suggests that fatty foods can increase the amount of serotonin in the brain. So it appears that some people who are obese do not make enough serotonin and are in effect trying...
...ambitious framework of 22 programs aimed at disease prevention. One goal was to reduce the percentage of overweight Americans from 25% to 20% by the turn of the century. It was, for the Bush Administration, an unusually activist experiment in preventive medicine, with the added purpose of helping curb health costs. Now the U.S. is not only unlikely to meet that target, says Robert Kuczmarski, lead author of the big CDC study, "but it's going in the opposite direction." Just when the country needs to reduce its health-care bills, its eating habits may be pushing costs higher...
...Fantini is not sure that the availability of the new drugs will curb pregnancies in Rindge and Latin...
...year, depending on who did the reporting, came in September. The U.N. population conference convened in Cairo, with representatives from 185 nations and the Holy See in attendance. On the table was a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to curb global population growth. About 90% of the draft document had been approved in advance by the participants, but the remaining 10% contained some bombshells John Paul had seen coming. The most explosive was Paragraph 8.25, which owed its inclusion in part to a March 16 directive from the Clinton Administration...