Word: curbing
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Harvard College administrators committed yesterday to participate in a Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) campaign to curb binge drinking on college campuses state-wide...
...demonstrator leaning over the curb sounded out-of-tune blasts on a large trumpet as a subwoofer beat shook an O’Brien truck with rhythmic thumps...
Boston educator Kerry A. Costello stood on the curb and shouted contentiously at Romney vehicles as they passed. She participated in the demonstration, she said, because she felt that a Democratic governor would improve the Commonwealth’s educational system...
...compared the street crime issue to the problem of truck traffic through the city. At first, when the city moved to curb trucks moving through Cambridge, the department did not see enforcing the regulations as directly their responsibility. Later, though, the department tightened enforcement of the city’s weight limits on trucks—which eventually helped to alleviate the problem...
Requiring seven weeks of “dead time” would help curb the increasing intensity of athletics and restore focus on the Ivy League’s academic mission, the thinking went...