Word: curtail
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...Saudis [May 22] have proved their sincerity toward us through their support of the dollar and constant efforts to curtail OPEC oil-price hikes. Now it's our turn. I applaud President Carter's display of fairness in this matter; it's about time someone realized that friendship is a two-way street...
...support. It has at least a fifty-fifty chance of becoming law. If it does, property taxes for all Californians will be slashed by 57%, beginning July 1. City, county, town and school administrators figure that they would lose some $7 billion a year. Either they would have to curtail services severely or the state, whose budget already totals $12.5 billion, would have to rescue them-presumably by increasing other taxes. As a result, officials are bracing for what they call "Black Wednesday," fearful that they may awaken on June 7 to find that the long-brewing taxpayers' revolt...
...executive secretary for the Boston office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday if the Supreme Court supports Bakke, the effect will be to "legalize a moral and political code that is hostile to the aspirations and rights of underprivileged groups, and will effectively curtail" the modest civil rights gains...
...conservationists. The bill also stipulates that once approval has been given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a plant, it cannot be stalled by further litigation, except on grounds of health or safety. Though that seems a huge loophole, the Government hopes that the provision will curtail the protracted environmental lawsuits that have hobbled the industry...
...more important than whether West Germany and Japan expand their economies is whether the U.S. can manage to curtail its wanton consumption of imported oil. As President Carter grimly noted last spring in his energy address to the nation, if present trends continue, the country's oil deficit by 1985 will total a mind-stretching $550 billion. With the world monetary system already buckling under the weight of the nation's existing oil deficit, it is not hard to envision the disruptions that will follow from a more than tenfold increase in the burden during the next seven...