Word: curbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some Afghans believe Karzai is too much a gentleman, failing to curb the excesses of the warlords within his own Cabinet. Like the Iraqis, Afghans are accustomed to strong men. --By Michele Orecklin. Reported by Tim McGirk/Islamabad
Last year’s keg ban came about as an attempt to curb irresponsible drinking, in the wake of the 2000 Harvard-Yale game that left four students with severe alcohol poisoning...
...acquired Jil Sander and Helmut Lang back then, has been struggling with the resultant $743.6 million debt. And LVMH is reportedly looking to sell the Donna Karan company. Then there are retreating industry stars like Calvin Klein, who retired last summer, and Donatella Versace, who in an attempt to curb financial woes is closing stores and cutting budgets...
...counterpart, including all of the 400,000 songs Apple now has the rights to resell, Jobs added a couple of cool new features. The best is a monthly allowance you can set up for your kids to govern their online purchases--a godsend for any parent trying to curb an offspring's downloading habit...
...polls failed due to low voter turnout. Meet the New Boss MIDDLE EAST Yasser Arafat swore in a new Palestinian cabinet, headed by PM Ahmed Qurie. The new lineup seemed weaker than that of Qurie's predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned in September after Arafat undermined his attempts to curb Islamic terrorists. Qurie lost his struggle with Arafat to name a strong security chief to face down Hamas, as Israel and the U.S. have demanded. Israeli leader Ariel Sharon is skeptical about Qurie's ability to halt terrorism, but Sharon's insistence on a total cease-fire as a precondition...