Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Egypt's continuing dependence on the Nile reflects growing industrialization, as well as profligate habits of consumption. Since 1981, use of electricity has soared from 18 billion to 45 billion kw-h. To curb demand, the government in the past five years has quadrupled the price of electricity for heavy users, although electricity for the poor is still subsidized. "We cannot pressure the poor," says Energy Minister Abaza with a shrug...
Other officials say that the best way to improve the parking situation is to curb the development which leads to the problem. "We can try to channel the development that hasn't yet occurred to other areas," Duehay says. "Many of the neighborhoods feel overwhelmed by the parking situation." He adds, "Maybe the thing to do is to impose a city-wide moratorium on new development until the city looks at the situation...
...blue Chevy station wagon, traveling up JFK Street at about 15 mph, was approaching the intersection just after 4 p.m. when it veered to the left. A local woman, who requested anonymity, said the car did not appear to slow down as it struck a bystander near the curb...
...lovely warm evening in Baton Rouge, when I was sitting with two friends on the curb outside a frozen yogurt store. We were eating and talking about the basketball game our school had just lost. A young couple approached...
...Congress does nothing further to curb Government outlays or boost taxes, the federal deficit will remain huge: a projected $128 billion in 1992. To close that gap, TIME proposes spending cuts over the next four years that would save $49 billion in 1992, along with tax and other revenue increases that would raise $79 billion...