Word: curbing
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...Senate minority leader Harry Reid is spooked by Republican threats to curb the mighty filibuster in order to get President Bush's judges appointed to the bench, he isn't showing it. In a private meeting last week with Reid, majority leader Bill Frist said he wanted a compromise over seven judges whom the President renominated in February and whom Democrats are threatening to filibuster. Reid told TIME Frist didn't give details, but said he would postpone a G.O.P. move to eliminate judicial filibusters until mid-May at the earliest while he works on a deal. Reid's response...
...have enough trouble walking down Cambridge’s narrow brick sidewalks. I am wildly uncoordinated, often stumbling over errantly laid bricks and occasionally slipping off the curb into oncoming traffic...
Women swoon over keepsake sonograms, but doctors and legislators are trying to curb that enthusiasm...
...INDICATORS Broken Trust The European Commission rejected Microsoft's proposals to curb the power of a monitor charged with policing its compliance with antitrust sanctions imposed one year ago. The firm has until April 11 to respond...
That dream seems to have stalled, with some police departments already beginning to curb orders. The bad news keeps coming. Several class actions are in the works, and a recent Air Force study suggests that Tasers may not be 100% safe. Chicago, which already has 200 of them deployed, delayed plans to distribute 100 more in February after a 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest and a 54-year-old man died after being stunned. Both were unarmed. "This is a classic case of giving someone a technology, then seeing them use it inappropriately and excessively," says Benjamin Wolf...