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...
...After an initial period of shock, complete paralysis gripped policymakers?and for an agonizingly long period the economy contracted. The initial policy reflex to raise interest rates, curb investment and dampen consumption rendered a dire situation worse, just as similar Hooverite measures had once done in the U.S. In the late 1990s, with social and political upheaval at hand, Japan was finally jolted into action. To quell a threatening run on the banks, the government declared that it would guarantee every deposit in the country, and injected trillions of yen into the financial system. Still the economy failed to respond...
...Committee, parents and politicians have discussed ways to further improve the lives of CRLS students. One proposal would give parents greater access to their children’s records via the Internet, and introduce a nutrition plan that would expand on the district’s past initiatives to curb childhood obesity and diabetes.“We have a lot of people, teachers, coaches, who want to see [improvement] happen and who really have the best interest of the students at the core of everything,” Knight said.Nolan was optimistic about the school’s ability...
...After an initial period of shock, complete paralysis gripped policymakers-and for an agonizingly long period the economy contracted. The initial policy reflex to raise interest rates, curb investment and dampen consumption rendered a dire situation worse, just as similar Hooverite measures had once done in the U.S. In the late 1990s, with social and political upheaval at hand, Japan was finally jolted into action. To quell a threatening run on the banks, the government declared that it would guarantee every deposit in the country, and injected trillions of yen into the financial system. Still the economy failed to respond...
...reclaim its economic sovereignty. It should do so by trading dogmatism for the realistic use of its powerful monetary and fiscal instruments. In brief, the EU should become more American. Conversely, the U.S. would be far better off if it focused on a disciplined economic policy in order to curb the abysmal “twin” deficits in its fiscal and trade accounts, i.e. if it (cautiously) followed the European economic way. The paradox of this chiasm between the European deficit of sovereignty and the American deficit of discipline is that if both blocs continue to follow their...