Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor more crusading zeal, while still others want to curtail overseas involvement...
...committee report cited the dangers offoreign efforts to curtail academic freedom bycontrolling teaching, and it also warned offoreign parties gaining the upper hand in economiccompetition by milking the results of researchdone in American universities...
Costas' tightly formatted half time shows often allow sports figures to get away with bitter cant and shameless self-promotion. It's a gig Costas is eager to outgrow. During the Games he is determined to curtail Olympic hype, and he intends to refrain pointedly from calling every upcoming event "exciting" and every confrontation "critical." Even with the tape delays necessitated by time differences, Costas will cover events as they happen, a high-wire act that will show off his considerable ad-lib talents...
...your district. Take, for example, ((groups like)) the American Association of Retired Persons or the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Their ability to organize makes them more of a power than the amount of a check they might write. Yet I'm sure none of us want to curtail the ability of people to organize and express themselves...
...train home, watches baseball on TV and takes its honeymoons in Hawaii (some Japanese children, indeed, are surprised to find that there are McDonald's outlets in America too, and that foreigners play besuboru). Recently Japan's most prominent gangsters reportedly complained -- in a p.c. fashion -- that laws to curtail their activities were "a violation of their human rights...