Word: curbs
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...than any other country in the European Union. The Local Government Association recently warned that despite devoting 109 square miles to waste burial, Britain may run out of landfill space within nine years. Aggravating the problem for local communities are E.U. regulations due to take effect in 2010. To curb the release from landfills of methane, a major greenhouse gas, the E.U. will impose harsh fines on communities that don't greatly reduce the amount of biodegradable materials they shovel into landfills...
...Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told the country's National Assembly on May 31 that the number of households going hungry has doubled in one year. "The government understands and shares with the people," Dung said. "And sees it is their responsibility to try to best curb inflation." So far, Hanoi has moved to cool the economy by requiring banks to increase their reserves; the central bank has also raised interest rates to 12%. But inflation is being made worse by Vietnam's weakening national currency. The Vietnamese dong has fallen roughly 1.5% against the dollar in the past...
...aimed at slashing greenhouse-gas emissions nearly 70% by 2050. The bill has slim chances of passing; critics say it would bruise the faltering U.S. economy by hindering manufacturers and saddling consumers with energy cost increases. But advocates hope the bipartisan measure will establish a blueprint for attempts to curb emissions under the next Administration, while leaving its opponents susceptible to the wrath of pro-environment voters in November...
...communities.” Ryan said that she and the other class Marshals were looking for a speaker who like Patrick, could speak to the use of a law degree in the public interest. During his year and half in office, Booker has keep busy in his effort to curb Newark’s crime rate and establish his legacy and reputation as the city’s reformer. His time as mayor has been met with some successes. Violent crime in Newark has declined for the first time since 2002, and the mayor continues to add new projects...
...choosing what they believed to be the appropriate setting for monetary policy, overestimated the productive capacity of the economy. I'll have more to say about this shortly. Federal Reserve policymakers also underestimated both their own contributions to the inflationary problems of the time and their ability to curb that inflation. For example, on occasion they blamed inflation on so-called cost-push factors such as union wage pressures and price increases by large, market-dominating firms; however, the abilities of unions and firms to push through inflationary wage and price increases were symptoms of the problem, not the underlying...