Hillary Clinton's mea culpa at the United Nations on Tuesday was supposed to tamp down the scandal over her use of a private email address as secretary of state.
Republican leaders are eager to tamp down such accusations.
The administration's choice of Rice and Power to address the Aipac conference, at which Netanyahu will also speak, is an apparent effort to try to tamp down an increasingly vitriolic back-and-forth between the US and its top Middle East ally.
The report describes a constant struggle for resources by a compliance department vainly attempting to monitor a vast and expanding number of transactions and regulations in the face of efforts by executives to tamp down costs.One employee who pushed hard for more resources to address festering problems was apparently sacked because of her efforts.
But he also agrees that good forest management thinning overgrown tree stands, or making use of selective fire as a housecleaning tool in the forests may help tamp down a probable upward trend in the severity of fires.Easier said than done.
EARLIER this year a Federal Reserve official tried to tamp down worries about inflation by noting that, while food and petrol were getting more expensive, you could now buy an iPad that was twice as powerful for the same price as the previous model.
Even a €90m ($119m) aid package to tackle regional climate change pledged earlier this year by the European Union has done little to tamp down its fears.The leaders of countries as far afield as Barbados and Grenada joined Tuvalu in raising the alarm over the issue in a series of impassioned speeches to the United Nations General Assembly last month.
The Islamists would once again rally support as the main resistance to the hated occupiers, whilst leaving Mr Abbas looking more like the stooge.Centrist Israelis would settle for periodic missions designed to tamp down Hamas—"mowing the lawn" they call it.
But in much of Africa, Asia and the rest of the world, they serve not only to silence irreligious utterances but, along with other limits on free speech, to ensure that hardline religious leaders support incumbents and to silence political opponents.Even laws introduced to tamp down the most poisonous utterances can end up as a tool of repression.
Today, in its quarterly review, the bank raised rates more forcefully than expected as it continues to try to tamp down inflation.
Now, China wants to tamp such nationalism down.
