Word: curtail
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...asked the Chief of Police to confer with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and representatives of Harvard and M.I.T. in an attempt to curtail the noise, which it termed "a source of nuisance and severe discomfort...
...Senate, a slightly watered down $320 million road beautification bill to provide for junkyard cleanups and billboard controls along federally financed highways. As originally reported out of the Senate Public Works Committee, the measure would have withdrawn all federal highway funds from any state that did not effectively curtail unsightly billboard advertising within 660 feet of federal-aid highways. The bill's punitive powers were cut by an amendment providing for withdrawal of only 10% of federal road money in such cases...
...distressing, Farnsworth said, that there is no information readily available to people outside the medical profession on the harmful effects of drugs. While the Health Services will shy away from "anything that seems like a spy system," he said, it will do everything possible to curtail the use of drugs...
Under a gold standard the U.S. would no longer be able to pay its foreign debts in dollars, but only in gold. U.S. businessmen would have to curtail their investments in foreign companies. (De Gaulle last week called such U.S. investments "a form of expropriation"). Until the U.S. balanced its payments in gold, American consumers would also have to reduce their purchases of foreign goods. Reason: since dollars would no longer be as good as gold, they would be cashed in abroad for gold as soon as spent. The U.S. would immediately become less potent in world economic affairs because...
...stockpiling at the rate of 1,000,000 tons a month, a rate that would give them 9,000,000 tons on hand at the strike deadline. Though that is well below the 12 million tons on hand when the 1959 strike broke out, it is enough to curtail steel demand for several months if the strike is short or never comes...