Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major economic disasters might force Harvard to curtail academic programs or pay more attention to the financial resources of applicants. Putnam says, "Things maybe won't work the way we want them, and there might be disasters, but I think we can handle them...
...might be thought by any observer from that region of the country known as "Away" that the Chamber had rudely refused to curtail its customary order of business because its members figured Nixon's hopes were only slightly more realistic than Harold Stassen's. My guess, however, is that these New Hampshire Republicans knew he was going to win. They did not approve of anyone, even a member of their own party, who wanted to associate himself with the Federal Government, and they intended to show their feelings while they had the chance...
...economic wilderness adventure by announcing two weeks ago an anti-inflation program that did not just raise the discount rate--the Fed's interest rate on money it lends to member banks--but changed the very nature of how the Fed controls the money supply. Instead of trying to curtail the boom in credit by manipulating interest rates, Volcker announced, the Fed would henceforth apply direct controls to the money supply, raising member banks' reserve requirements and using other methods to keep cash out of circulation...
Toward that end, Fahd argued that the P.L.O. should curtail its terrorist activities for a time, while the Saudis offered the U.S. their million-barrel-a-day oil production bonus-or "Fourth of July present," as King Khalid described it at the time. Kuwait was brought in on the deal to make use of the abilities of its representative on the current U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Abdalla Yaccoub Bishara...
...tolerate the abrupt trials and swift executions of so many people who have, in his words, "done Satan's work." One longtime acquaintance of the Ayatullah speaks of the "rage and anger he feels toward men in authority," possibly stemming from the efforts of the Pahlavi dynasty to curtail the power and prerogatives of the clergy for the past 40 years. Friends insist that in private the Ayatullah has a keen sense of humor and is a highly emotional man. But an American academic who is an expert on Iran observes, "He is absolutely determined to be serene...