Word: reined
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...Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to rein in the chaos. How is he doing on that score...
Donna Smith, 41, of Springfield, Pa., acknowledges that her eating disorder sprang from a need to rein in her sometimes out-of-control life. Smith, a bookkeeper and part-time yoga instructor, had struggled with bulimia as a teenager and resorted to it occasionally as an adult. But the disorder returned with a vengeance three years ago when her estranged father resurfaced after a 20-year absence, then died. Smith coped by resuming her old self-destructive ways. By the summer of 2003, she carried less than 100 lbs. on her 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Only after...
CHARLIE MCCREEVY, E.U. Internal Market and Services Commissioner, declining to rein in the lucrative but controversial industry
...hope is that dumping such stocks en masse will persuade companies to cease working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down...
When Giuliani sought to rein in free expression in Brooklyn, he lost—and was humiliated. When McCain sought to curb free speech nationwide, he won—and was lionized...