Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Evanston's violence does not begin to match that in many of the high schools in neighboring Chicago or other big cities, it threatens to erode the quality of the education available to the school's 4,700 students. The music department had to curtail some of its independent study programs after someone stole the recording equipment. Business classes were hampered this spring by the theft of 13 typewriters and calculators. The daily schedule was revised to cut back on students' free time. Rest rooms on the third floor were closed after they became hangouts...
...braved union opposition to begin layoffs of thousands of city employees, won concessions that would lead to policemen's working five days in the next 15 months without pay, and tightened work rules in a number of city departments. Last week he announced that he would sharply curtail the city's borrowing, reduce police, fire and sanitation services, increase teachers' workloads and raise real estate taxes by 10%. The measures are designed to save the city some $135 million in the fiscal year that begins in July, and to impress on local bankers that .Beame is serious...
...have been dialing the same numbers. Professors still tell stories about Harvard fund-raisers leaving alumni offices only to let in another Harvard fund-raisers to plead his case. As for the Ford Foundation, the days of the big matching grants are over. New tax laws designed to curtail foundation assets have caused organizations like Ford to cut off their grants--not with a slow phase-out but an abrupt yanking...
...well. It follows that the university must do everything possible to ensure within it the fullest degree of intellectual freedom. The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessary also deprives others of the right to listen to those views...
...slashed. Then the U.S. might get the most painful of all economic combinations: roaring inflation and a deepening recession besides. It is not even certain that Ford's program would cut oil imports as much as he desires; consumers might choose to pay the high prices rather than curtail their driving and turn down thermostats...