Word: curbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...alcohol at this year’s Harvard-Yale game will flow as freely as ever, even though the College administration has banned kegs in an attempt to curb irresponsible drinking...
With a decade between Up and his last album, the beautiful and emotionally fraught Us, Peter Gabriel may have forgotten why musicians have to curb the tendency to wallow in themselves. Gabriel may be physically incapable of making a sonically uninteresting album—Up is certainly no bubblegum chart-topper—but at times he seems to have lost track of his knack for melding oddball ideas with a pop sensibility honed to perfection in his years with Genesis...
According to Chomsky, there are many other effective methods to curb terrorism besides waging what he said would be an inconclusive war. He cited the example of Germany, where he said the police have broken up “very significant al Qaeda rings...
...females in one sitting—in the past two weeks. This percentage has barely fluctuated over the past eight years, despite a nation-wide decrease in fraternity and sorority membership, an increase in the student population living in substance-free housing and educational efforts by colleges to curb binge drinking. These failed measures are almost identical to what the DPH action plan proposes...
...rule of stand-up comedy, which is, If it's not funny, don't bring it up. In the show, something was either funny or setting up something that was funny, or it wasn't in." He says he likes his former partner Larry David's HBO show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, for precisely the same reason...