Word: curbing
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...just getting to be beyond our ability to curb it," said Alcorn. "[The burglaries] seem to have diminished and we are greatful for that...
Suddenly the silence was broken by the boom of a shotgun. Three police cruisers, their tires squealing, encircled an old faded green station wagon idling at a curb. A pack of fresh-faced young men and women in navy blue polyester jackets dashed around the corner of the Dogwood Inn motel. Each brandished a drawn revolver and a look that said, One false move, and you're dead...
Skeptics say evidence for the greenhouse effect is not so hot. But many scientists counter that failure to curb CO2 emissions amounts to a dangerous experiment with the atmosphere...
...outcry has prompted a growing sentiment in Congress to curb the advertising of legal vices. Legislators are working on 72 separate bills concerning tobacco products, while another flurry of proposals would impose new restrictions on beer, wine and spirits. Since last November federal law has required warning labels on all containers of alcoholic beverages sold in the U.S. Expanding on that approach, legislation sponsored by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee and Representative Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts would require spoken health warnings in all TV and radio ads for beer and wine, including toll-free telephone numbers that would provide callers...
...some good. The environmental movement, which once had a reputation for attracting only fringe liberals, has truly moved into the mainstream. Most Americans probably now know that styrofoam is bad and trees are good, that natural resources are not inexhaustable and that the garbage they put out on the curb is part and parcel of "the solid waste problem...