Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's velvet steamroller smashed through the Democratic House of Representatives last week, flattening opposition to his radical plan to curtail federal spending. As a result, his even more controversial tax-cut proposals stand a good chance of gaining final congressional approval this summer. The President's victory in the House budget fight was decisive: not a single Republican deserted his party, while 63 Democrats abandoned theirs. That gave Reagan a 77-vote margin in the 253-176 roll call, on which a Reagan-endorsed budget proposal replaced a more moderate cutback recommended by the House Budget...
...Council of Ivy Group Presidents' recent advice that the schools' bands curtail sexual innuendo and political jokes of "questionable taste" during football games prompted Harvard Band members to defend their half-time shows yesterday...
...Trudeau. His controversial constitutional reform package, initiated after the Quebec referendum to strengthen Canada's federal government, has been tied up for six months Ottawa's Parliament. Six of the nation's ten provinces have challenged Trudeau's bill in provincial courts on the grounds that it would illegally curtail the traditional rights of the provincial governments. Moreover, Trudeau's efforts to bring provincial energy resources under greater federal control have sparked bitter separatist demonstrations in the oil-and gas-rich western provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Lévesque's new mandate seemed certain to exacerbate such burgeoning...
...short, the current Reagan proposal will not just eliminate loans of convenience, which as you correctly point out, have been abused. It will eliminate the program and seriously curtail the ability of the middle class to afford the "excellent schooling for anyone who wants it" which indeed should be a choice...
...alternative we can return to the program as it was before November 1978 in which the interest subsidy was available only to families earning under given income levels, unless need could be documented. Such a program would serve more of the middle class and curtail the increase in Guaranteed Student Loan costs...