Word: curbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush's response to Kim raised eyebrows all over Washington and beyond because Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to be leaning in the opposite direction the previous day. Powell had implied that the Bush administration would continue the Clinton administration's search for agreements with North Korea to curb its missile program and other dangers...
...about global warming. Scientists now warn that unless we cut output of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the earth could heat up by more than 10[degrees]F this century. Clinton made speeches about the threat and sent Al Gore to Japan to help negotiate the Kyoto protocol to curb carbon emissions. But then they made no real effort to build support for the preliminary agreement, which has yet to be turned into a detailed treaty that nations can ratify. Bush has opposed the Kyoto pact because it exempts China and other developing nations, and he isn't likely...
...wasn't even any grass. I remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never a break from the sun. It felt like Arizona, not Ohio...
...click of a mouse (and at the low, low price of free), the Big Five record labels are starting to look positively negligent. They might as well have taken all that precious copyrighted music they invested so much time and money in, and left it out on the curb with the recycling. In the language of the playground: finders keepers, losers weepers...
...Seeking to curb the epidemic and restore consumer confidence, the E.U. has adopted a series of draconian measures. Among the requirements: all untested cattle older than 30 months must be purchased and destroyed; high-risk materials like brains, spinal matter and tonsils must be eliminated from the food chain; and animal feed containing meat and bone meal, widely suspected of spreading the infection, must be banned and existing stocks destroyed...