Word: curbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only way out of this mess is both to make a serious effort to curb demand and to make a real investment in alternative sources of energy. Since HR 6 does neither—it basically just ups subsidies for oil suppliers—the EIA’s findings should come as little surprise. Kerry’s energy proposal, by contrast, mandates both. Whether he would have the political conviction to see them through is another matter...
Like all other restrictions, this will do virtually nothing to curb the amount of alcohol consumed during Harvard-Yale weekend. Sure, underage students might not be allowed to walk up to House U-Hauls and grab a frosty brew or a cup of some Tropicana Twister-and-rum concoction. Instead, they’ll just binge drink in their rooms at 10 a.m., or carry around a flask full of some noxious liquor that even a homeless alcoholic wouldn’t drink...
...Hopefully, as more companies like Redline start up, seizing the advantage of arbitrage, publishing companies will be forced to lower prices to compete. When buying books this fall, students must remember that as a collective group, consumers do retain some power on their own to force publishing companies to curb their practices. But that power must be exercised—be it online, abroad or at a used books sale...
...students shook hands with John F. Kerry and then unloaded the luggage of the campaign and press corps at the airport. Another team of 10 College Dems met the motorcade at the hotel and carried the bags from the curb...
...shame, given that his biography is rich territory: he was born dirt poor, he discovered as an adolescent that his father was the late big-league pitcher Tug McGraw, and he was rejected by almost every record label for being too ordinary before becoming a star when Curb Records finally took a chance on him in 1992. But McGraw is still somehow greater than the sum of his songs, in large part because, while his message can appear calculated, his charisma is authentic. In concert, when he gets a chance to blast his exuberant Everydudeness to the back...