Word: curtail
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...Judge John C. Lifland of the U.S. District Court in Newark also denied the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary injunction that would have allowed law schools to immediately curtail Judge Advocate General (JAG) recruiters’ access to students...
Israel's army chief of staff, Lieut. General Moshe Yaalon, exposed a rift between military leaders and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week when he criticized Sharon's policy of keeping a stranglehold on Palestinian towns to curtail attacks by Palestinian radicals. Yaalon told columnists from three newspapers that the Israeli government's "tactical decisions" were at odds with its "strategic interests." Military officials say Yaalon fears current policies will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories, fuel popular rage and so provoke more attacks on his soldiers. Yaalon blames Sharon's hard-line policies for also contributing...
Capping tuition would force schools to scale back such quality-enhancing measures. According to a recent article in The Economist, “government micromanagement” has left the publicly funded British universities so strapped for cash that many have been forced to curtail their course offerings and even shut down entire departments...
With more and more Harvard students hospitalized for severe alcohol abuse, University officials have launched an initiative to look into new ways to curtail irresponsible drinking, from adjusting social attitudes to expanding treatment options...
...complaint, the union argues that Harvard had effected “unilateral change of term of employment” by “curtail[ing] employee vacation benefits in violation of contract and practice, thereby constituting refusal to bargain...