Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Federal Communications Commission was worrying about media monopolies long before Spiro Agnew ever left Maryland. Last week the FCC finally moved to curb joint broadcasting-publishing companies that it considers to hold "undue influence on local public opinion." It promulgated a rule forbidding the owner of any TV station, AM-FM radio operation or newspaper to acquire another outlet in the same community...
...Spock seems to imply that it is necessary for us all to be neurotic. He considers the Supreme Court's guidelines on obscenity- works appealing to prurience and utterly lacking in social significance- too limited to curb pornography and media violence effectively...
...surprisingly, one of Cambridge's greatest problems is controlling the tremendous daily influx of automobiles into the city. A survey two years ago revealed that Cambridge is 15 miles short of curb space necessary to accommodate the parking needs of these autos. While moving violations pose only a slight problem- how fast can you go in Cambridge anyway:-five sergeants in the Traffic Bureau dole out over 250,000 parking tickets within the city limits every year. Many of the violations are flagrant- double-parking, triple-parking, parking by fire hydrants- and habitual offenders, figuring that they will pay less...
That ominous, red-lettered legend is emblazoned on flyers circulated in Washington, D.C., where public health officials mounted a massive emergency vaccination campaign to curb an outbreak of common measles. Nor is Washington the only city in the U.S. fighting a childhood disease that was generally believed to have been almost stamped out by the effective vaccines available since 1963. Cleveland, Chicago, Corpus Christi and Los Angeles, among others, have reported sharp increases in the number of measles cases. For the entire U.S., the rate of reported cases has soared 50% in one year...
Most of GM's actual research goes toward devising "gadgets" to curb hydro-carbon and carbon-monoxide emissions on the company's internal combustion engine. Automotive experts have admitted that the internal combustion engine will always be a pollutant and will have to be replaced before the air can be cleaned. But GM and most of the other leading auto companies have committed themselves to it-understandably, since it's their current product. Only a very small part of their research budget has gone, to date, into developing alternative engines to replace...