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...Stager insisted that since he had become the museum's director in 1986, he had done his best to curtail the museum's rising deficit...
Advantage, for whom? The Faculty, of course. "The faculty who spoke acknowledged that the proposed change would logically look more attractive to students than to faculty," Buell said. "But in their judgment, creating a full winter break for students would either deny or curtail their own vacations...
Little wonder no one knows what U.S. policy toward China is these days. At the same time that Clinton Administration officials are threatening to curtail trade by revoking Beijing's most-favored-nation status because of China's dismal human-rights record, the Administration is quietly poised to approve one of the largest sales of U.S. military hardware and technology ever to the People's Liberation Army. The deal, which could be worth as much as $2 billion, involves gas turbine engines. The Chinese say they want to use them for jets, but some nuclear nonproliferation experts insist that Beijing...
...still kind of embarrassed about it." Two recent male acquaintances walk over, and the women quickly curtail their conversation...
Rudenstine's comments come amidst community-wide criticism of the decision to curtail the museum's public programs and relocate some of its collections in the face of a $1 million deficit...