Word: curtail
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...proposal also would urge the Corporation to support or initiate shareholder resolutions in corporations in which it holds stock that call upon the companies to reduce or curtail operations in South Africa...
Sources this fall said some members of the Corporation want to curtail distribution of the endowment income, to provide a greater hedge against future inflation...
...strong current of political expediency runs below the surface of Congress's push for civil rights for the aged. Legislators could attempt to use the new forced retirement law to eliminate pressure for the reform of the Social Security system, Later retirements would help curtail the drain on Social Security as well as ease the burden on private sector pension funds...
...Abourezk and Metzenbaum had introduced no fewer than 508 amendments. Each amendment could thus be called up for a time-consuming vote. The Senate had run through only about 200 of them-and seven days, including one 37-hour session-when serious moves began among the Senate leadership to curtail the filibuster. The two filibuster leaders said they would end the talkathon if Carter asked them to do so. But Byrd advised the White House to stay out of the Senate's business. He would take care of the filibuster his own way. What followed was a unique show...
Harvard Magazine officers have not yet found replacements for the six magazine directors who resigned last June after charging the University with trying to curtail the magazine's editorial independence through a major restructuring of the board, a magazine spokesman said yesterday...