Word: curtail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time for Clinton and Congress to make a deal. In exchange for dropping impeachment proceedings, the President would agree to wear Sam Donaldson's toupee for the remainder of his term. Harsh, perhaps, but it should satisfy fair-minded people, and will definitely curtail Clinton's romantic appeal. KEVIN MEEHAN Washington...
Michael C. Occhuizzo '99 said, "This mandate may allow for Harvard to publicly step up its current policy, but I doubt it can do much more to curtail underage drinking, short of going to a dry campus...
...daily attracted a readership of 300,000 but infuriated hard-liners with stories on previously taboo topics, including political dissent, U.S. relations and the wisdom of a military confrontation with neighboring Afghanistan. The shutdown came swiftly after Supreme Leader ALI KHAMENEI's "final notice" to government officials to curtail press freedom. Indefatigable Tous editor MAHMOUD SHAMSOLVAEZIN had managed to get his paper back on the streets after two previous closures, once by changing its original name, Jameyeh. But last week he was in prison with four Tous colleagues, facing a revolutionary trial. There was no word from Khatami...
...perpetrators. A few hours later, the President uttered a grim public warning to the terrorists: "We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes." The U.S. has long believed that the only way to curtail terrorism is to exact justice by capturing and convicting individual culprits and retaliating against nations that sponsor them. Declared National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley: "We don't forgive, we don't forget...
...more immediate level, the Student Council took up the issue of the European food shortage. After President Truman called on the nation to curtail food consumption and conserve grain in late September 1947, enthusiastic members of the Council spent months wrangling over the implementation of a University-wide conservation program...