Word: nip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conservation. Environmentalists point out that raising fuel-economy standards from 27.5 m.p.g. to 34 (Honda and Toyota just announced they would start selling some cars with engines that do twice as well) would save more oil than expedited drilling in Alaska could provide. The carmakers clearly wanted to nip that idea in the bud. Efficient cars are smaller cars, and therefore fuel economy, they say, is dangerous to your health...
...crossing this year. "Take me with you in your suitcase," pleads a high school student, only half in jest. After months of leniency, malcontents are again being hauled off to jails or rounded up for warnings. Local block groups, with 4 million members, have formed "rapid-reaction brigades" to nip any protests...
...from a humble background to fame, fortune and a White House closetful of red Adolfo suits? Try this for a hot biography. There's this poor little rich girl in Spokane, kind of a Shirley Temple type. Dad's a lawyer, Mom's a tough lady who likes to nip at the bottle. Despite the kid's pitiful efforts to please her mom, all she gets is a hard time...
...unease about the ultimate objectives of the conflict. The conservative opposition backed him; the only sniping came from the far right, the Communists, and pacifists within his own Socialist Party. But as a member of the so-called Munich generation, which witnessed the West's failure in 1938 to nip Hitler's deadly ambitions in the bud, Mitterrand stood firmly against appeasement. Elysee Palace aides noticed a deep anger taking hold of him as he watched Saddam's cynical maneuvering, his wanton destruction and his contempt for human life...
Simonds' tally, the first of two on the night, was able to nip any Bruin momentum in the bud. While two Brown defenders tied up Whyte, the puck slid through the crease untouched. Simonds came in from the right wing and blasted the loose puck into the back of the net from point-blank range...