Word: curbing
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Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) announced last week that it will begin a trayless dining initiative, which aims to curb food waste and encourage healthy portion selection. The initiative will begin in beta form this semester in Quincy House for the month of February. House residents dining on Thursday night (Quincy’s community dining night) will forgo trays for plates and cutlery only. The plan was unveiled in a pamphlet for Quincy House residents that featured a list of the top ten reasons to embrace trayless dining. Aside from the usual (and compelling) reasons to eat without...
...place giant flowerpots in the road to make drivers hit the brakes. But in 1982, Monderman risked a bolder approach, redesigning the street layout of car-clogged Frisian towns and villages. He began by removing the road signs, traffic lights and surface markings, then set about eliminating the curb between the sidewalk and the highway. "My theory," said Monderman, at a Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) summit in London last November, "was if you want people to behave in a village, maybe you have to make it feel like a village." Monderman's flowerpots reduced average traffic speed...
McCain is also a major advocate of campaign-finance reform, having crossed party lines to join Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin to limit soft money and curb the corruption associated with funding a campaign. He has also publicly condemned pork barrel spending in Congress, which he believes interferes with national interests...
Students at the University of Iowa might find themselves setting their alarm clocks for early Friday morning as administrators there attempt to curb Thursday-night drinking. The university is offering incentives to departments to schedule classes on Friday mornings after the results of a recent study suggested that undergrads would drink less the night before...
...College has taken measures to curb drinking in the past...