Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, when the Pudding produced their hundredth show "Here's the Pitch," in 1948, the producers decided to celebrate. They sent the play to every big city east of the Mississippi, and ended up with a deficit of over $13,000. Since then, the Pudding has attempted to curtail such ambition...
...allow marriage to curtail their scientific careers, however. Most work for a short time, take time out to raise a family, and then return to their professional fields, often to work as a team with their husbands...
...Natural Gas Law would, in effect, exempt producers of natural gas from government regulation. Under existing legislation, the Federal Power Commission has regulated gas production at the wellhead, with the "primary aim of preventing exploitation of consumers." But supporters of the bill maintain that these regulations curtail the profits of the nation's more than 5000 gas producers--most of them relatively small--discouraging them from seeking vital new reserves. The real violators of the consumer's interest, according to Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, sponsor of the bill, are the pipe-line companies who collect 90 cents from every dollar...
Beer, representing the state A.D.A., complained that investigations "based on such vague terms as communist sympathy or affiliation with a subversive organization," would result in an atmosphere of fear in the classroom and would curtail free discussion of ideas...
...could oppose a contingency fund for the President's use. Hollister, however, must have overlooked one fact: Congress has already set aside $100 million explicitly for use at the President's day to day discretion. In short, it is quite clear that Hollister's first wish was to curtail the economic aid program in favor of a balanced budget: it is hardly necessary to cut back the current plans to create a fund that already exists...