Word: curbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrived at the Fleet Center an hour early, and tickets were being scalped outside the T station for hundreds of dollars. Hundreds? I began to get nervous. Hundreds of dollars is a lot of money. I counted no less than five stretch limousines in a line by the curb. These people were obviously high rollers. But all the limousines were white. And in there was a 33 RV parked directly in the middle of the line. Garth Brooks would have been proud. This crowd had its share of card-carrying members of the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association...
...Well, there seems to be an attempt to curb violence in our culture, although were still a gun-toting country. And this is an outlet for violence that is safe and legal and a way to enjoy violence in a public arena, something we can't normally do since we don't have staged executions yet (though I imagine someday we will...
...here's a question for the British government: Nobody can blame desperate souls for trying to flee Afghanistan's medieval Taliban regime any way they can, but granting 19 hijackers asylum in Britain would undermine international efforts to curb terrorism. The hijacking drama came to a peaceful end Wednesday night as the hijackers allowed the last remaining passengers to leave, and then walked off the plane and into police custody. Despite a call early on in the ordeal for the release of an Afghan opposition leader, the hijackers had made no specific demands after forcing the Ariana Boeing...
Thanks in part to the publicity surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp and other heavily hyped celestial events, "light pollution went from a nonissue to something that's on everyone's mind," says Maryann Arrien, a documentary-film maker and an amateur astronomer in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Efforts to curb light pollution are under way from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest, according to the International Dark-Sky Association (I.D.A.), which boasts 3,600 members in 70 countries...
...Volcker, a financial heavyweight, wouldn't grade Greenspan, but he voiced a mock complaint that Greenspan was getting a lot of credit for prosperous times without having to break a sweat. The vigilantes were doing it for him. When traders whiffed inflation, they chased long-term rates higher to curb borrowing power and cool the economy...