Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of Pentagon waste hail the department's new rules for having helped curb the sort of skulduggery that used to allow contractors to sell the Government $7,000 coffeemakers and $600 toilet seats. They maintain that defense companies, far from destitute, are simply earning less than the bloated profits they once viewed as their birthright. Says Dina Rasor, director of the private Project on Military Procurement: "It's like taking a fifth hot-fudge sundae from a fat man, and he complains that you're starving...
While several of the program's organizers saythe lack of minority teachers stems from theattraction of other fields that are able to lurepotential teachers, they said that programs suchas the current one at Harvard could help curb thisproblem...
...bill to limit campaign financing was filibustered to death by Republicans last February. Efforts to curb honorariums have failed because lawmakers complain they cannot get by on $89,500 a year, a lament that understandably falls on deaf ears beyond the Beltway, where the median family income...
...current trade negotiations, we will push for removal of tariffs and other barriers that impede commerce. To show we are serious about this goal, we will move immediately to curb the wasteful subsidies that each country pays to its domestic farmers -- subsidies that hamper agricultural trade and lead to overproduction and inefficiency. Specifically, we have all pledged to reduce our agricultural payments by 20% over the next year. If a country does not comply (and the staff of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will be the arbiter), each of the other nations will subject selected products from...
...Dukakis will be to flesh out his vague stump speeches with more specifics. This means converting his pleasant-sounding concepts -- such as a "real war on drugs" and "comprehensive day care" -- to realistic programs complete with price tags. He also owes voters a credible explanation of how he will curb the federal deficit. If his follow-up sounds as expensive as his promises are expansive, Dukakis may alienate the moderate voters who put Reagan in the White House but are now skeptical about Bush...