While well-intentioned attempts to curb smoking may appear bold and decisive, they are in the end timid.
Like a vaccine they offer a public good as well as a private one in that they curb the rate of viral transmission.
But Sebi chairman, DR Mehta, told the BBC that he was confident the markets would respond well to a measure which will not only curb excessive speculation, but do away with a system which was sometimes used by unscrupulous operators to rig the stock markets.
China has been making substantial efforts on its own to curb such excesses, and these might well benefit from co-operation with outsiders.
Narrowly-focused central banks allowed severe financial imbalances to arise and failed to act to curb them on the grounds that, well, inflation was low so they were achieving their goals.
The meeting mostly helped whittle down the subjects for the closed meetings, which should focus on how much of a curb there should be on injunctions as well as the definition of just what the "reasonable" in Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) patent licensing terms should mean.
The futures system was designed to curb a variety of abuses and had performed well for the better part of a century.
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The team will now carry out further research to see if the vaccine can curb memory loss in Alzheimer's mice as well as reduce their plaque burden.
But while there is pretty much consensus within the scientific community about the protective effect these oils have on the heart, their impact upon the brain - whether to lift depression, curb violent urges, or simply to boost concentration - are less well documented.
He has promised to curb home prices by building 85, 000 new flats a year, as well as boost education and nurture more high-tech industries.
Oh well, maybe stuff like the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voting to kick to the curb congregations too cozy with lesbians and the like.
Well, if we ignore that money is fungible and that there's no way to curb the appetite of aggressive investors, it must be asked how it came to be that stupendous failure, including that of banks, could truly threaten the whole economy?
Time Warner's HBO will immediately furnish users with content such as ringtones and games, but plans to send Cingular customers exclusive clips of future hit shows, including Curb Your Enthusiasm--if you can stand the excruciating social snafus--as well as Sopranos next year.
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If you expected Nokia to just kick its waning S60 5th OS to the curb in 2010 after positive reaction to the Linux side of its dual-platform smartphone strategy, well, it ain't gonna happen.
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