Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most significant step taken during two days of talks was the Soviets' dropping their insistence that an agreement to curb the U.S. Star Wars missile-defense program be completed before a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty...
...which goods, services and workers can circulate freely, and where competition can reward efficient enterprise. In 1957 the E.C.'s founding treaty promised just such a common market, but although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create a common currency, E.C. countries have already made significant progress toward their goal of unstitching the area's patchwork quilt of protected national markets...
...frame the question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...
...frame the question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...
...frame the question of pluralism in another, more violent language. On one March night, two Black students run to catch a University shuttle bus but are pulled off by Cambridge police, searched and left without explanation on the curb. Ask the police why they acted so, and they answer they saw two men running on a street after a nearby convenience store robbery. Granted, they say, the suspect in the robbery was a single white male, but under the mercury lights in the Square perhaps skin color is too deceptive...