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Waking to the sounds of village life rather than the street sweeper scraping city curbs is my idea of paradise.

Recipe: Gigantes in Savory Tomato Sauce (Γίγαντες Πλακί) Laurie Constantino 2008

They say the U.S. is trying to avoid tough short-term curbs on its energy consumption, while it seeks to draw the emerging economies into a long-term climate-control regime that eventually will place strict caps on them.

Tumult Surrounds G-8 Summit, 2008

Cancun made little progress toward resolving splits over Kyoto, long-term curbs on greenhouse gases or ways to bolster fragmented carbon markets that are intended to drive trillion-dollar shifts in investments from fossil fuels.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue, calls the curbs, "unreasonable and unfair," and said, "Some provisions could potentially turn business people into criminals and workers into felons."

CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006 2006

Last night's snowfall had left less than an inch of snow on the ground, but all that was left along the curbs was a ridge of gray slush.

Father Christmas Arnold, Judith 1997

The curbs were a sensible initial reaction although they "do little to address the underlying cause of the problem," Nagy said.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010

Sir - So some City types don't like the idea of curbs on hostile foreign takeovers of British companies and think that the threat of being taken over makes management efficient

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

The antique cars parked at the curbs are a treat to see.

Latest News www.northjersey.com 2010

Women 'to bear brunt of budget cuts' as unions call curbs on strike powers an 'act of war'

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The curbs were a sensible initial reaction although they "do little to address the underlying cause of the problem," Nagy said.

BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2010