Word: curtail
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...houses at Cairo's Manasterly Palace, Seoul's Arts Center and London's Barbican Hall, to name a few. This week he's on his way to Rome's Teatro Ghione, and from there to Singapore's Symphony Hall for recitals. His rigorous performance schedule has forced him to curtail some of his old hobbies, such as mountain climbing, skiing and tennis. But having just celebrated his 91st birthday, he's not complaining...
...incidents, the more remote the fear, the less necessary the war seems and the more dispensable the war President appears. If he responds to this by insisting that the enemy is still powerful and dangerous, he runs the risk of seeming to concede that he hasn't managed to curtail the threat. Or, worse perhaps, it seems as if he's whipping up fear and panic for his own electoral advantage. And after the failures of intelligence with respect to weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush's credibility on unknown threats is already eroded...
Last semester, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 formed a Committee on Alcohol and Health to investigate campus alcohol abuse. The committee, chaired by Currier House Master Joseph L. Badaracco, is examining what initiatives and social alternatives could curtail binge drinking. It is expected to issue a report on its findings later this year...
Though the defense in front of him struggled to curtail speedy BC’s odd-man breakouts off turnovers in the neutral zone, Daigneau slammed the door shut on the Eagles for the remainder of the second period and well into the third until BC tacked on an insurance goal courtesy of a pair of Crimson mistakes...
...effort to curtail the current avian-flu outbreak before any killer mutations can occur, public-health officials, epidemiologists and virologists are now scrambling to figure out the origin and genomic sequence of the flu strains in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Vietnam. A 14-strong WHO team, including experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is expected to arrive in Hanoi by midweek. If they can determine where this virus came from, then perhaps better surveillance and monitoring of the poultry trade can curtail future outbreaks...