Word: curbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...less radical seminaries, leaders say they have adopted new rules to curb such ferocity. "Any student or teacher who tries to do politics inside here," declares one principal, Mufti Mohammed Naeem, "is kicked out in 30 minutes. But," he admits, "jihad is everywhere, in graffiti, the Urdu newspapers, in tea-shop talk." Once his students leave campus, they are prey to extremist groups...
Additional research is needed on the impact of social norms marketing before it is taken up by more colleges. In the meantime, colleges need to adopt approaches that are more comprehensive—even if less convenient—to curb the problem of heavy drinking. These approaches should also address the supply of alcohol by limiting high volume sales and low price promotions of alcohol around colleges...
...would authorize spending $200 million a year to study and develop "clean coal" technologies. But that's a substantial comedown from the billions spent in the 1970s and 1980s to encourage development of an industry that would turn coal into oil and synthetic gas, enabling the U.S. to dramatically curb imports. It never came about...
...stations closed on Sundays and motorists waited in lines for hours to fill up, Congress enacted a series of tough conservation measures. The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 imposed stringent mileage requirements on automakers--an average of 27.5 m.p.g. on passenger cars by model year 1985--to curb gasoline consumption. It worked...
...exporters. But USAgain is the first unabashed--albeit vaguely labeled--for-profit firm to establish a nationwide presence in the U.S. The company, based in Elgin, Ill., is teaming up with recycling contractors in cities like St. Paul, Minn., where residents can leave bags of clothing on the curb alongside paper and plastics. But some towns have sent USAgain packing. "This wasn't about goodwill for the community," says Frank Bergman, mayor of Cahokia, Ill. "This was about making money." USAgain claims it has never presented itself as a charity. "We communicate at the boxes that this is a company...