Word: tamped
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...Because I think those details would be useful, and not just for the intellectual edification of policy wonks. Details could also help tamp down what I suspect is a rising (though not yet obvious) anger in the U.S. among those who (as a President you worked for in the '90s once put it) "work hard and play by the rules." Nowadays, I suspect that a lot of us, who try to do exactly that, believe we're being played for suckers. We work hard, play by the rules - and get stuck with the bill. And as this recession deepens...
...clear if the verdicts will tamp down tensions or inflame opposing sides of the protests that have engulfed the Thai capital. Fears of clashes between the PAD and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) have been mounting in recent days, and several PAD members have been killed or wounded in grenade attacks on their protest sites during the past week. One PAD member was killed and 22 wounded early Tuesday when an unknown assailant fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the passenger terminal at Don Muang airport. "We need a system in this country where elections...
...clan warfare in the 1990s following the death of the dictator of General Mohammed Siad Barre. Today, it is ruled by a fragile coalition of warlords kept in place by the Ethiopian army, which invaded with U.S. backing to drove out an Islamist authority that had, ironically, managed to tamp down piracy, but was also harboring wanted al-Qaeda figures. And some of the warlords in the current government are accused by international observers of being the real commanders of Puntland's half-dozen main pirate groups...
...would almost inevitably involve raising costs now, with higher taxes on oil, increased subsidies for other energy sources or higher energy-efficiency standards for vehicles and homes - or all three. Economists tend to prefer the first of these approaches because taxes on gas, oil or fossil fuels in general tamp demand and allow the market - rather than members of Congress - to sift out the best alternatives...
...some years back to come up with my current rig: a Rancilio Silvia. I adore Miss Silvia and use her daily while my dog Sticky sits at my feet. But the machine is for people who like to fiddle--and not everyone wants to grind beans, pre-heat demitasses, tamp at just the right pressure, "temperature surf" and do all the other hoo-ha necessary to produce a perfect shot (or "God shot," as they call it on Coffeegeek). Even the lazy have a right to God shots at home, I suppose...