Word: curtail
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...floor. Some of the latest reversals were unavoidable: Clinton's campaign mathematics were untenable long before the Bush Administration revised its projections of future deficits. Budget Director Richard Darman's estimate of deficits in excess of $300 billion through 1997 simply hastened the need for Clinton to curtail his plans and start spinning down expectations. In early January, aides began to back away from his improbable plans to provide tax relief to middle-class Americans, spend $20 billion on infrastructure this year, oppose a gasoline tax and still cut the deficit in half by 1996. Explained a top economic adviser...
...antiforeign assaults mounted, Bonn remained paralyzed by a debate over whether constitutional changes were the solution. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union insisted that an amendment to curtail the right of asylum was the only way to stop racial violence. After much internal strife, the opposition Social Democrats seem ready to agree. But a belated victory for Kohl will not erase suspicions that his government has been more concerned with political gain and bolstering its own appeal to a right-leaning electorate than with law-and-order measures to end the strife in the streets...
...Health Statistics), smoking costs taxpayers in Massachusetts $1.5 billion each year--for medical costs and lost productivity due to tobacco-related illnesses. The majority is thus paying for the effects of the smoking engaged in by the minority. Does the majority not then have the right to attempt to curtail this activity...
...issue of freedom of speech should also be a concern. While the Bush administration amended the rule last March to allow physicians to discuss abortion with clinic patients, nurses, nurse practitioners and social workers are still forbidden from broaching the option. Any time the government attempts to curtail free speech, warning signals should flash everywhere...
Even as they denounced the violence, Bonn officials used the occasion to urge once more the adoption of a constitutional amendment that would curtail Germany's liberal provisions for asylum. Germany continues to bear the brunt of Europe's population upheaval, taking in 256,000 asylum seekers last year -- a number that may double this year. But Kohl's Christian Democrats could soon get their wish. Leaders of the rival Social Democrats, whose support is essential for such an amendment, coincidentally abandoned their opposition only hours before the Rostock riots began...