Word: curtail
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...Natural Gas Law would, in effect, exempt producers of natural gas from government regulation. Under existing legislation, the Federal Power Commission has regulated gas production at the wellhead, with the "primary aim of preventing exploitation of consumers." But supporters of the bill maintain that these regulations curtail the profits of the nation's more than 5000 gas producers--most of them relatively small--discouraging them from seeking vital new reserves. The real violators of the consumer's interest, according to Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, sponsor of the bill, are the pipe-line companies who collect 90 cents from every dollar...
Beer, representing the state A.D.A., complained that investigations "based on such vague terms as communist sympathy or affiliation with a subversive organization," would result in an atmosphere of fear in the classroom and would curtail free discussion of ideas...
...could oppose a contingency fund for the President's use. Hollister, however, must have overlooked one fact: Congress has already set aside $100 million explicitly for use at the President's day to day discretion. In short, it is quite clear that Hollister's first wish was to curtail the economic aid program in favor of a balanced budget: it is hardly necessary to cut back the current plans to create a fund that already exists...
...Medical School has instructed its counsel to follow closely the progress of a pending Salem lawsuit whose outcome may seriously curtail the School's supply of cadavers for student dissection...
Colorado's greatest hockey supporter sees to it that each participant is given the full run of the Hotel, with only the coach's restrictions to curtail his privileges. This could include the Broadmoor's three swimming pools, two golf courses, six tennis courts, its numerous stables, a museum and zoo, and its several restaurants and night clubs, in addition to the several special events planned for the hockey Tourney...