Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deliberate striving to hurl the world back to the dark times of the cold war." Said the official Soviet news agency: "Washington's rulers are in a hurry to whip up a campaign of hatred against socialist countries, to undermine the foundations of Soviet-American relations, and to curtail them to a minimum...
...York Congressman Jack Kemp, a firm believer in the tax reductions, charges that his lapsed protégé, Stockman, deliberately concocted the frightening deficit forecasts and made them public in order to necessitate such action. Another route would be for Reagan to seek a palatable way to curtail the inflation-based increases in entitlement programs, although he will find it all but politically impossible to touch the granddaddy of them all, Social Security. Finally, he may be forced to revoke the dispensation he has granted to the Pentagon, which last week almost casually requested $6 billion more...
...have Nixon to kick around any more") because he was suffering from a terrible hangover when he barged into a press conference. Ehrlichman also claims that when he was asked to join the 1968 presidential campaign staff, he said he would do so if Nixon would curtail his tippling. Ehrlichman contends that Nixon agreed, and kept the unusual bargain...
...example, is holding out for an immediate reduction in the work week from 40 hours to 38; Mitterrand is offering 39. A crowd of 3,000 ecologists staged a violent demonstration two weeks ago at Golfech, in southwestern France, to charge Mitterrand with reneging on his campaign pledge to curtail new nuclear-plant construction...
...through. The study criticizes a troublesome archbishop in Vladimir and Suzdal for ordering his clergymen "to preach more frequently and not be lazy." Pointing to a disturbing revival of traditional holiday visits by priests, the author of the report lauds one council functionary in Tomsk who "took steps to curtail such activities" after he noted that Lenten visits created a "sensation" in villages and provoked "unwholesome interest" among unbelievers...