Word: curtail
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Pressures to curtail the rights of women come from various puritanical sects within Islam. "They want to impose a new social order by force," says Khalida Messaoudi, president of an Algerian women's organization. "They start by attacking women because women are the weakest link in these societies." Particularly strict is the Wahhabiyah, a movement founded in the 18th century that counts among its adherents many Afghans and the Saudi ruling family. Wahhabi women live behind the veil, are forbidden to drive, and may travel only if accompanied by a husband or a male blood relative. The demands...
...than twice its free-market price even before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. With two simple tools--stand-by gasoline rationing authority and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--the U.S. could use its weight in the world petroleum market to bust OPEC once and for all. By merely threatening to curtail drastically its consumption and flood the world market with cheap oil, the U.S. could force the oil-fattened Gulf kingdoms to play by the rules of the free market and stop gouging the rest of the world...
...Times piece, written by Christopher Robbins, author of the book on which the movie was based, noted that "the CIA did not lack funds for its war in Laos, and the U.S. embassy in Vientiane went to considerable lengths to control and curtail the ((drug)) trade." In the Journal, publisher Peter Kann, who was a reporter in Vietnam, and Phillip Jennings, a former Air America pilot, called the movie a "political obscenity" that smears Air America pilots as buffoons. "This drivel is scripted with all the subtlety of an Animal House cast reciting passages from Jane Fonda's Hanoi diaries...
...commodities from Iraq or Kuwait. The sanctions--only the third to be imposed by the Council in its 45-year history--came five days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and overthrew that country's government, after about two weeks of threats that it would do so if Kuwait did not curtail its oil production...
...Colombian authorities really want to destroy the cartels? No. The goal is primarily to drive them out of Colombia, which would not necessarily curtail cocaine production. Officials distinguish between drug trafficking, which mainly threatens the consumer countries, and narcoterrorism inside Colombia, which they are determined to stop. The constant terror bombings and assassinations have led to widespread calls for negotiation with the cartels. But that option has been rejected by both Barco and President-elect Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who has promised to pursue the war when he takes office in August...