Word: curtail
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...party, including a condensed version of the leggy Broadway hit A Chorus Line, for the nation's Governors and their wives. Thirty-one of the Governors are Democrats, and more than one-third of the budget cuts announced so far by the Administration for fiscal 1982 will curtail state and local programs that have benefited from federal money. Nonetheless, the National Governors' Conference passed a resolution declaring that the states were prepared to accept budget cuts, but only if they are given time to adjust to the new austerity, that poor people are protected against unfair treatment...
...John F. Kennedy Center, a community organization that provides social services to about 3,000 families and employs six CETA workers, about 15% of its staff. Harrison predicts that the center will be forced to reduce sharply its day care and youth recreation programs, as well as curtail the hours of its health clinic. Howard Mclntyre, 31, earns $30 a week while learning to be a machine-tool operator in a CETA training program; he now fears that he is headed for the unemployment line. "I got laid off two years ago because I didn't have enough experience...
What went wrong? In initiating Milton Friedman's theories, Thatcher seems to have discovered a catch-22. Push interest rates to a record high, which she did, and it is private enterprise and individuals who have to curtail investment and spending. Force noncompetitive businesses to wring out their slack and unemployment rises. As workers "go on the dole...
...early elections that would bring Felipe Gonzales's Socialist Party into contention. Juan Carlos held consultations with all party leaders through the weekend, but remained intent on making his planned tour of the embattled Basque regions this week. If political uncertainty continues, however, he may be forced to curtail his trip to the U.S. next week...
White dramatically canceled Saturday burials at all three municipal cemeteries to eliminate $360 a week in employee overtime payments. Bostonians were understandably vexed. "The mandate of the voters was not to curtail essential services," protested City Councilman Raymond Flynn. "Among the obligations we have is burial of the dead." Last week city hall resumed the Saturday graveyard shift. But there was no question about what else the mayor would like to bury. Says City Councilman Patrick McDonough: "City hall is rubbing the electorate's nose in such outrages as the Saturday burial ban, hoping that this will make them...