Word: curbing
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...minds that the U.S. and Turkey had overplayed their hands," according to a Danish official. And European leaders couldn't help but stick it to the uppity Yanks. "We don't run to Washington telling them they ought to make Colombia the 51st state so they could curb the drug trade, even though that would be in our interest," says Elmar Brok, a German Christian Democrat who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament. "The U.S. has to understand that the E.U. is a quasi-state entity, with standards and rules and, soon, a constitution...
...case of the 15 SCUDS aboard the So San, the recipient is a U.S. ally and isn't denying the purchase. And despite the efforts of the U.S. and many other countries to curb missile proliferation, the sale of conventional weapons is not in itself illegal. Yemen on Tuesday protested the seizure of the missile shipment, and demanded its return, and after talks with U.S. officials Washington agreed to hand them over. But the procurement of the SCUDS breaks a promise U.S. officials say Yemen has made to refrain from buying missiles and parts from North Korea, and could cast...
Chopra: I realize that 99.9 percent of people define a square as a shape with four sides of equal length. Around here, though, any time there is an end of a street and a curb, you can have a square. To make it more square-ish, I think I would allow food vendors on the street...
Cambridge is already doing its part to curb lead poisoning, according to Sam T. Lipson, director of Cambridge’s environmental health unit. He cited the Lead-Free Cambridge program as instrumental in the city’s fight against lead paint...
Saturday’s tailgates, on a muddy field in frigid weather, culminated weeks of debate over whether the administration’s decision to ban kegs would curb irresponsible drinking—or endanger students who chose to guzzle hard liquor instead...