Word: curbing
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...unless it’s out to make a point, and this is no exception. It might be reassuring if the Greenpeace case were just a weird outlier. But it’s not. It is emblematic of a concerted effort by the White House and its allies to curb unwelcome dissent...
...closest to the President on Christmas Day had his face blown off by the blast; from that grisly evidence he was identified as Muhammad Jamil, a 23-year-old from the Pakistani-controlled section of Kashmir, who was affiliated with a militant Islamic group that Musharraf has tried to curb. "Whoever has done this," says Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, a spokesman for the military, "they have some kind of objective. They will keep trying until they reach...
...With national elections possibly looming in the spring, some international observers worry that surprises at the polls could produce a coalition government without the political will to curb the deficit, fix taxation and continue with the privatization program. Singh, however, asserts that India's reform process is now irreversible?regardless of the elections' outcome. "There are certain ideas which become the dominant themes of the time," he says. "Growth, progress, development, equitable distribution?is today's idea. No political party, no coalition party will be able to go outside the realm of this idea...
...subjects is the drug-rehabilitation camps that are blossoming all over Yunnan. A drug user picked up by the police is often forced to serve a mandatory three-month sentence in a rehabilitation camp, where calisthenics, lectures and daily treatment with a Chinese version of methadone are supposed to curb the addict's habit. Up to 20% of the inmates, by the guards' rough estimates, are HIV positive; because they are registered by the police, they can be tracked after they leave the camps. Eventually Ho wants to find and monitor 500 HIV-negative patients in the Mangxi area...
Though many professors are working to curb grade inflation at the College, one sophomore is on a crusade to garner more honors for Harvard students...