Word: curtail
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...committee recommended that the trustees abstain from voting on a resolution calling for American Metal to curtail its investments and operations in Namibia, South Africa...
...that step is taken, Administration officials are convinced that the nation can get through the summer suffering nothing worse than localized gasoline shortages and some rise in prices. There is one major hitch: if refineries produce enough gasoline to meet peak demand this summer, they may have to curtail heating-oil output enough to threaten more chillouts next winter...
Apart from the eternal problem of making what by their very nature are high-risk investments, venture capitalists face some other dangers. Rising interest rates are beginning to hurt those who supplement their own capital by borrowing money. Support is growing in Congress for proposals that would curtail the present liberal tax treatment for capital gains-now one of the prime incentives for wealthy investors to form venture capital groups. But as long as cash-strapped entrepreneurs dream of building giant companies, and wealthy investors savor the excitement of backing new ideas, the venture capital industry will be around...
...money to build one, the plan lay gathering dust until last spring, when Bing's successor, Göran Gentele, took it up. Gentele's plan to use the Juilliard School Opera Theater fell through, but the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, forced by inadequate funding to curtail its season, offered the Forum...
Drained. Burger "has good sense of pace," says one of his colleagues. The Chief knows when to curtail drifting discussion and when to call a temper-cooling coffee break. But there are inevitable undercurrents of tension on the ideologically split court. While one Justice speaks of another as "a great storyteller, quick with very funny stories about cases he's tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody...