Word: curbs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...sure there is no disagreement concerning the dan gers to both the Soviets and to ourselves in the continuing strategic arms race; nor is there disagreement about hopes for an enforceable SALT agreement to curb the race. Good arguments can be made for more funds without "scaring hell out of the customers." My point. Dr. Foster, is that credibility is increased and not decreased by presenting a symmetrical picture of the strengths and weaknesses of both sides. The Soviets are indeed eight feet tall...
...marathon meeting of the City Council this week took definite action to curb the activities of street people in the Harvard Square-Cambridge Common area. Orders passed by the Council included...
Harold Understands. One reason for the continuing trade problems has been the failure of past governments to curb Britain's chronic wildcat walkouts, of which the dock strike is an outstanding example. British dockers already take home an average $84 a week, so hopes of a peaceful settlement were high early on, when union leaders endorsed management offers of a 4% to 7% increase. Those hopes crumbled, however, when rank-and-file insurgents, demanding pay increases closer to 80%, rejected the package and led dockers off the piers. Jack Jones, head of the 1,500,000-member Transport...
...million people and the chief source of support for Demirel's Justice Party, are angered by his attempts to improve conditions for the middle class and the business community. The middle class wants him to place more emphasis on law and order so as to curb radical leftists. The minority leftists, who despair of ever gaining any sort of power through parliamentary means, advocate disruption as the only way to be heard...
...prime offenders, of course, are not so much the dogs as their owners. Cities abound with curb-your-dog signs; those near Manhattan's U.N. building deliver the message in four languages. But who heeds them? Owners know that cops are often too busy even to enforce the laws requiring leashes...