Word: curtail
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...ACSR had never previously supported a resolution seeking to curtail the Arab boycott. Last year, the committee reasoned that the federal government must take the lead role in curtailing the boycott...
...curtail waste of energy and tap the nation's coal reserves so that the U.S. can stretch out oil and gas supplies until past the turn of the century, when new sources of energy, such as fusion, geothermal and solar power, will be coming on-stream in a significant way. Though it is still subject to change, here is how the Administration's new energy program now looks...
...prospective extension of price controls to intrastate gas is a bad mistake; it destroys that gas as a valuable yardstick of what the commodity really is worth in a free market. Since price is the quickest means for conservation, year-by-year increases in gasoline taxes could eventually curtail unnecessary driving and force more use of mass transit. Unfortunately, this is one of the proposals least likely to be in the final program...
...nationwide demand rose sharply over the past two weeks, the pipeline companies scrambled to line up additional supplies of gas and eventually had to tell many industrial customers to curtail their use of gas drastically or shut down altogether. With the Government energy bureaucracy unable even to keep adequate track of the shutdowns, much less manage the crisis, the natural-gas situation became the first practical problem confronting the new Carter Administration...
...routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...