Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inaction been limited to Arizona's state legislature. City, county, and state law enforcement forces, while receiving highly-touted if actually modest increases in funding, have failed to curb substantially the state's still-flourishing organized crime. Althout reliable statistics are hard to come by, Mafia activity is actually reported to have been on the rise during the past two years in Arizona, despite the supposed crackdown on organized crime after the Bolles murder. Spending for law enforcement in fiscally-conservative Arizona has finally reached the per-capita level of most other states since the Bolles killing, but police complain...
...will be short, mild and help curb prices, say TIME'S economists
Carter still argues that these steps will curb the inflation without causing a slump in 1979. Last week he told a meeting of the Business Council that "we do not anticipate a recession next year"-though he added that warnings of one "can become a self-fulfilling prophecy." But among the ten members of TIME'S Board of Economists, only University of Minnesota Professor Walter Heller will give even fifty-fifty odds on avoiding a downturn. The others all agree that there will be a recession, but that it will be mild and brief, lasting only two or three...
...Administration's assault on the entitlements has been weak and equivocal. One idea that deserves more attention than it is getting is Califano's hospital cost containment bill, which would curb Medicare expenditures by prohibiting hospitals from raising costs by more than 9% a year. Perhaps an even better approach is Economist Penner's suggestion to have the program's recipients pick up a portion of their hospital and doctors' fees. This would not only cut expenditures but also discourage recipients from rushing to the doctor for every sneeze and sniffle. The whole concept of linking federal pensions...
Your reference to "the Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning" is incorrect. No one hauls barrels to the street in Milwaukee. Our sanitary engineers collect trash from wherever it may be: garage, backyard, etc., not at curbside...