Word: curtail
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...lives, the news is just as bad. Another recent U.S. survey shows that 96 percent of employees want more flexibility and control over their time through options such as telecommuting, job-sharing and flextime—although few encounter such possibilities. Seventy-three percent say they are willing to curtail their careers to make more time for their families, and 75 percent would like to change jobs within the coming year...
...Direct student contact will be part of both jobs,” she says. “I hope not to curtail my work with students. In fact, I hope that through the work in the office of student activities I will be meeting with a wider variety of student leaders...
...many researchers have had to curtail their work to focus on more limited and specific questions than they might otherwise address...
Davis said he had remained close with Trombly since the incident, though they had been forced to curtail the scenes of their socializing...
...much of the high-tech machinery and parts it needs to build conventional arms?as well as weapons of mass destruction. Following revelations this year that some Japanese-based companies had exported items to the North that could have been used to build atom bombs, Japan has attempted to curtail some of its trade with the regime. On May 8, for example, Tokyo police raided a trading company called Meishin, which is run by members of Japan's North Korean community. Police accused Meishin of exporting transformers whose workaday function of regulating electrical current could have had useful applications...