Word: curtail
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This order attacks the basic idea of an academic community--a place in which ideas move freely. Lee's apparent misunderstanding of the role of free speech in such a community should not be ignored. In trying to protect himself from the frequent barrage of press criticism, he would curtail the academic give-and-take central to any curriculum...
Surely the time has come for all these top government officials to curtail their frantic dashing about. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk has never stopped pointing out that the diplomatic service is a 500-year-old invention designed to make it unnecessary for Kings, Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretaries to be everywhere at once...
...Republic. He would put America's wealth and power at the service of some vague New World Order; we will put America first." Buchanan believes that the U.S. has no business promoting democracy abroad now that the cold war is history. He wants to end direct foreign aid and curtail U.S. participation in the World Bank. Buchanan would rapidly withdraw all American ground forces from Europe. Some of the troops, he suggests, should be used to reinforce border patrols that intercept illegal immigrants from Mexico. As for legal immigration from Third World countries, Buchanan would curb that...
Washington state voted on imposing term limits designed to curtail the careers of House Speaker Tom Foley, other members of Congress and state officials. It voted, as well, on a first-in-the-nation plan to legalize doctor-assisted suicide for the terminally...
...current imbroglio over heresy and money can be traced back to 1983, when the church hired John H. Hoagland Jr. to run its media operations. One of Hoagland's first acts was to curtail spending on Eddy's daily newspaper, the money-losing Christian Science Monitor. He began to pour tens of millions of dollars into World Monitor magazine, a nightly cable-TV news program, a Boston UHF station and, especially, a 24-hour cable service, Monitor Channel, founded...