Word: curtail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although a congressional effort to reform campaign finance in 1974 limited personal contributions to $1000, the move was a simple palliative which did little to curtail the prohibitive costs of campaigning for national office...
Strossen also singled out the socalled "gag rule," which prohibits family clinics which receive federal funding from counseling women on abortion, as the court's latest attempt to curtail a woman's right to control her reproductive system...
...latter is true, however, we should cease imposing on ourselves moral duties that are the exact opposite of other life forms' guiding imperatives: instead of accepting our part in the evolutionary struggle like our brothers the insects, we mistakenly act as if we should exterminate ourselves (or at least curtail our survival-oriented activities) for the good of all species except...
...church was trying to modulate the whole situation," explains one of the NSC officials who directed the effort to curtail the pipeline. "They ((church leaders)) were in effect trying to create circumstances that would head off the serious threat of Soviet intervention while allowing us to get tougher and tougher; they were part and parcel of virtually all of our deliberations in terms of how we viewed the evolution of government-sponsored repression in Poland -- whether it was lessening or getting worse, and how we should proceed...
...been threatened at other Ivy League colleges--cannot be touched. We firmly believe that a Harvard education should be available to everyone regardless of financial need. Likewise, the Faculty shouldn't skimp on beefing up a security program that is still inadequate. In the past, administrators have tried to curtail funds for the shuttle bus and have declined to from other areas. No fiscal concerns should jeopardize students' safety...