Word: curbing
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...projects he has worked on this year are solidly important to the University, if decidedly unsexy. Fineberg's office led the fight this year to curb trademark infringements on the storied Harvard name. He has presided over attempts to bring the massive, flailing computer system called Project ADAPT under control. He is the point man on interfaculty initiatives, a subject long dear to Rudenstine's heart...
...reject the nuclear test-ban treaty. At the end of next week, when Clinton flies to Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will be looking over his shoulder at the North Carolinian. Helms, worried that Clinton might agree to Russian demands that the U.S. curb its missile-defense program, has already told the President not to bring back an arms deal, particularly one that keeps the Antiballistic Missile Treaty alive. He will kill it in his committee. "I just wanted to stop that before it grew feathers," the folksy Helms said in a lengthy interview...
Would we be safer if police had plenipotentiary powers? Certainly we would curb more crime if police could wander through our homes looking in closets and drawers or stopping and searching any person or car they chose. But the genius of American liberty is the recognition that public safety is not always the highest civic goal, and it may come at too high a price...
Gore said the best way to foster democratic reform and curb human rights abuses in China is by building close political and economic ties rather than containment...
...Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what a curse means. She will be able to curb herself." In the meantime, I just may change supermarkets...