Any measure to curb either of these in the next few years could rapidly push more pensioners back into poverty".
Eight thousand British troops working with government soldiers have failed to make much headway in curbing either Taliban activities or the drug industry.
Yet prohibition is seen by drugs experts as a failure, is estimated to cost around $100bn annually and has "failed to curb either supply or demand, reduce addiction, or minimise harm", in the words of the BMJ.
As with the war on drugs, which has singularly failed to curb either use or trafficking, the international bombing campaign has done little to stop the self-described Caliphate from attaining the core principles of statehood.
This vote underscores what appears to be rising public dissatisfaction with drug sentencing policies, like New York's harsh Rockefeller-era drug laws, that emphasize incarceration rather than treatment, filling jails at great expense without curbing either drug abuse or drug-related crime.
But so far, Mr. Kerry's continuing trip does not make us confident that the administration has a fully thought out strategy that will be any more successful than the current one, which has failed to curb either the North's nuclear weapons program or its bellicosity.
This can only be done by curbing either his arbitrary power, or his subjects' dependency on him.
The Obama administration agreed to the payments as an alternative to either curbing government support for U.S. cotton growers or having Brazil slap import taxes on American goods to compensate for the loss to its farmers.
Brian M. Riedl, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group, said the four fiscal years through 2003 were on track to be one of the periods of the highest spending in American history and that there was so far little political pressure to curb spending on either national security or social programs.
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