Word: curtail
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...response to the Khmer Rouge's deteriorating situation, five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines), which backs the Kampuchean resistance, demanded that the Soviet Union curtail its military aid to Viet Nam, estimated at $6 million a day. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the nominal head of the resistance coalition government, warned that China, which invaded Viet Nam in 1979, would teach the Vietnamese "a second lesson" if the guerrillas are pushed to the wall...
...next Oct. 1, would rise only 1.5%, to $973.7 billion (including some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate programs that benefit farmers, veterans, students, the sick, small businessmen, exporters and just about everybody else except Social Security recipients...
...major factor in the pacing of the contest was the Crimson's ability to curtail the skating of Dennis, the Ivy's third-leading scorer...
...forth, in hopes of getting government out of the middle class's face and maximizing aggregate freedom in society. Also, the "man must be free" orthodoxy leads to things like B-1B bombers and ROTC to crush communism, fascism and other systems resembling the Soviet Union, all of which curtail freedom. It's a pretty good argument, really, because it lends itself to expression in pop songs like "God Bless the U.S.A...
...congressmen also threatened to push legislation to curtail invesment in South Africa and organize international diplomatic and economic sanctions if the South African government does...