Word: curbed
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Would-be reformers face fierce resistance to their efforts to curb entitlements to the well-to-do. The Republicans who now control Congress promise to cut taxes on the "middle class," but their definition extends to families with income of $200,000 a year. And the G.O.P. prefers to pay for new tax cuts by cutting spending on the poor and the bureaucracies that purport to serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed...
...surgical" operation to decapitate Fidel Castro, but he doesn't have the power to make something like that happen. His rough agenda as chief of the foreign policy panel, while conservative, is not wholly outside the mainstream. His doubts about Clinton's controversial pact with North Korea to curb its nuclear program in exchange for new light-water reactors financed by Japan and South Korea are shared by other Republicans. He will look into drug trafficking and human-rights violations in Burma, joined by Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry. He wants to withhold foreign aid from Colombia if Bogota shows favor...
...minutes later, a blue van from the Brattle Square Florists drove up to the curb closest to Rudenstine's home. The driver, who did not give his name, said that he was delivering a dozen red roses for "Neil." He said he gave the flowers to a woman with shortest Grey hair who was probably in her 40s or 50s. The exchange took "two seconds," the driver said...
CAPTION: To curb INFLATION, the Federal Reserve has raised its target for the FEDERAL FUNDS RATE which in turn has an impact on other rates, such as those for MORTGAGES and TREASURY BONDS
...Gingrich, outlined the first priority of their legislative agenda today: They promised an audience of GOP governors that they would push for relaxing federal controls on states as soon as possible. Dole told the Republican Governors Association that the first bill brought to the Senate floor next year would curb federal initiatives that require state financing. "We're going to change the direction of America for the right reason -- it needs to be changed," Dole said. His House counterpart promised the governors that he would frequently solicit their advice.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...