Word: curtail
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...America to the U.S. and Europe. A July report by Washington's General Accounting Office claims that even more drugs are moving through Panama today than before the American invasion of December 1989. That is worrisome for the Bush Administration, which had hoped the removal of General Noriega would curtail drug smuggling through Panama...
Remarkably enough, the nuclear building program has withstood the two great shocks of the atomic era. The 1979 near meltdown at Three Mile Island spawned new safety regulations. The catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986 set off a public outcry in most of Western Europe, forcing some governments to curtail nuclear programs -- but not France. Five reactors will be added to the national grid in this decade. The Superphenix fast-breeder reactor, a joint venture with Italy and Germany, is working, though it has been dogged by technical problems and will never recover its $4.5 billion development cost...
...measure would require drug testing for federal prisoners eligible for parole and severely curtail the ability of state prisoners, including death- row inmates, to challenge their conviction in federal habeas corpus proceedings. While a similar anticrime package died in House-Senate negotiations last year, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, the measure's chief sponsor, predicted that this bill would prove more palatable...
...potentially a prosperous country, said Baker, but "to tap this potential, the Soviets must move to embrace a real market economy." And to provide stable political underpinning for it, Moscow should fully accept the rule of law, stop repressing the independence-minded Baltic states, cut its military spending and curtail or end its aid to "regimes that pursue internal repression," presumably including Cuba...
...will it cost? "We are literally, totally, utterly gagged," says Amy Dienesch, executive director of Planned Parenthood in the Chicago area. "Women won't have help being referred to a reputable or safe provider." Moreover, clinics that choose to give up federal funds may have to cut staff and curtail hours. Warns Tom Kring of the California Regional Family Planning Council: "The cutbacks may force women seeking first-trimester abortions into waiting longer and longer," an outcome that poses greater medical risks. Some counselors fear that the people in the poor neighborhoods served by Title X clinics will misunderstand...