Word: curbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...latest to vanish is Li Guanqing, the Shandong province villager. A few minutes after Li spoke to a TIME journalist on the night of Feb. 12, a police car with sirens blazing screeched up to the curb near Li's bedraggled tent. Somebody, it seems, had alerted the cops that a nosy foreigner was asking questions about sensitive matters. The tight security was unsurprising, given an emergency notice circulated to officials by the Ministry of Land and Resources this month that urged: "When signs of petitioners entering Beijing arise, [officials] must mobilize all local channels to engage in dissuasion work...
...While efforts to curb spam in e-mails have been progressing, the spim problem is just starting to explode. Ferris Research estimates that twice as much spim was sent in 2003 as in 2002. Though people receive far more spam than spim, spim has a special ability to be slightly more annoying. "It pops up and distracts you," says Casey McArdle, a graduate student in Fort Wayne, Indiana, who says he gets at least one spim a day on his computer. "With e-mail, you just go click, click, click, delete...
...sent on its messenger service are spim, which is the new word for spam sent via instant messaging. A total of 582 billion IMs were sent worldwide in 2003, according to the Radacati Group - and that adds up to a whole lot of spim. While efforts to curb spam in e-mails have been progressing, the spim problem is just starting to explode. Ferris Research estimates that twice as much spim was sent in 2003 as in 2002. Though people receive far more spam than spim, spim has a special ability to be slightly more annoying. "It pops...
...could tell you this fundamental law of economics: people respond to incentives. Any sort of program that promotes recycling and more efficient consumption could be very effective if incentives are involved—monetary or otherwise. No matter how scrupulous students seem to be, we will not recycle or curb careless waste unless it is convenient...
...Tight Spot in Pakistan Your story about attempts on the life of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf showed what a precarious position he is in [Jan 12]. His support of the U.S. in the war in Afghanistan and his efforts to curb the influence of Islamic fundamentalists and extremists in Pakistan, in accordance with the wishes of the White House, do not make him very popular among these groups. With the security situation worsening in the region and Pakistan's democratic leadership not yet very stable, there is a risk that the country and its nuclear capabilities may fall into...