Word: rein
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...Cuomo and others are working to rein in private enterprise. The White House wants to cut interest subsidies to lenders 0.5%, which should save $12.4 billion over five years and leave the industry with less funny money. But lenders claim such a move could force them out of the market. "We make less than half a percent on a guaranteed loan," says Tom Joyce, spokesman for Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student-loan company. "You do the math." And there is a renewed effort to get more schools into direct lending, which costs taxpayers an estimated $7.50 less...
...Recently, gunfights and tit-for-tat executions have erupted in west Baghdad between the nationalist Battalion of the 1920 Revolution and al-Qaeda-backed fighters. Last week, an influential nationalist group, the Islamic Army in Iraq, asked Osama bin Laden to rein in al-Qaeda in Iraq's more extreme tactics, such as targeting Iraqi civilians and brutally enforcing Sharia...
...pressing Musharraf to do more to rout terrorists in Pakistan, his political survival still depends on parties that resent his ties to Washington. There is a widespread view in Pakistan that Vice President Dick Cheney, during his trip to Pakistan two weeks ago, reprimanded Musharraf for failing to rein in the militants. But officials on both sides say the partnership between Bush and Musharraf remains solid. "Is it doing more? Well, yeah, it's doing more. We all gotta do more, do better, do different. It's a war," says a senior Western diplomat in Pakistan. "But for folks...
...there are signs that Khamenei may try to rein in Ahmadinejad before he causes more trouble. An editorial in Jomhouri Eslami, a daily that reflects the views of the Supreme Leader, blasted the President for dismissing U.N. sanctions against Iran as a "piece of torn paper." A paper by the Majlis foreign-affairs committee reportedly warned about the negative economic impact of further sanctions and urged that "everything be done"--apart from sacrificing national honor--to head them...
...biggest challenge is bridging the country's epic gap between rich and poor. Almost half of Mexico's population lives in poverty--a big reason that so many are flooding the border to work in the U.S. Keeping more Mexicans at home will almost certainly require Calderón to rein in, if not break up, the entrenched monopolies that suck vital investment from small and medium-size businesses...