Word: curtail
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...marks the last day for Harvard student groups, including final clubs, to register the names of their officers with the College to comply with its revised hazing policy.The deadline comes under a new attempt to regulate events sponsored by student groups and athletic teams, which the administration hopes will curtail hazing and decrease unsafe and underage drinking.According to the Handbook for Students, party hosts or officers of the sponsoring group can be held responsible for “harm or the potential for serious harm” to a student resulting from the consumption of drugs or alcohol...
...Sept. 6 attack by Israel on suspected nuclear weapons sites in Syria and, when pressed, shot back at persistent reporters, "This is not my first rodeo." Asked what his definition of torture is, he repeated the now near-meaningless assertion, "We don't torture." On diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program, he said he had told third countries, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon...
...likely to get much help from Beijing, which has its own priorities and a limited set of tools to rein in consumer prices. Efforts to cool economic growth by reducing liquidity - China has raised the amount Chinese banks must set aside in reserves seven times this year to curtail the amount of money in circulation - have had little effect...
...will discover other colossi who made the miracle of Indian democracy possible-men like Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel, who coaxed the rulers of over 500 technically independent Indian kingdoms to give up their crowns and join the new nation, and Jayaprakash Narayan, the socialist who opposed moves to curtail civil liberties in the 1960s...
...underwrite home mortgages. Advocates in the region hope those sorts of new approaches will be just the start. In Mexico, advocates for the rural poor - hundreds of thousands of whom migrate illegally to the U.S. each year to work - insist there are myriad efforts the U.S. could aid to curtail the flow at its source, inside Mexico, instead of throwing billions at building walls along the border. One is the growing number of microcredit banks that help remote rural towns finance businesses. "If I could sit down with Presidents Bush and Calderon in Merida, I would say, 'Look...