Word: curbing
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...Curb Your Cravings Food cravings are common and problematic, because they can lead to overeating that undermines health and promotes obesity. But there's not much agreement about what their cause may be or how to manage them...
...history has exposed more glaringly than ever the potentially violent social divide in Mexico. Addressing this split in a constructive way will be crucial to Calderón's ability to defuse the growing turbulence. And that, in turn, could have a beneficial impact on Washington's efforts to curb illegal immigration, which may not be successful until its southern neighbor builds more reliable government institutions and a more equitable economy...
Four out of five Americans support efforts to curb global warming, but our leaders in Washington have been slow to act. And it's not the first time. Many of the most important advances in clean-air and environmental policy, including energy-efficiency standards for appliances and clean-car laws, have started in California, spread across the country and finally been embraced and consolidated in national legislation. So Washington, do you hear us? A national approach is inevitable, and we should start now, before states form a patchwork of 50 different plans. Predictability and consistency will encourage businesses across America...
...shouldn't use evidence obtained through torture, that people should not be locked up without trial. American colleagues have been fighting identical battles. Those cases were won, but the status quo remains the same. But how do we balance the protection of human rights with the need to curb terrorism? There is every mechanism already available to the state to properly detect and detain and investigate. What is not just unacceptable, but plain wrong, is to say that a person suspected of terrorism deserves the rule book being torn up - basically a retreat to medieval rack and thumbscrew, and that...
...child policy," the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. Chen's mission seemed reasonable at the time: If he could only alert higher-level officials to what rogue local bureaucrats were doing to try to meet low population targets, surely the higher-ups would curb Linyi's excesses...