Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the words exemplified Ford's courage, a quality no one has doubted Ford possesses, prudent White House aides predicted privately Ford will in fact curtail some of his travel plans and will move more circumspectly when he ventures out of Washington. The White House announced, however, that he will keep his speaking engagements this week in Chicago and Omaha...
...fighting in Sinai? Even if Congress approves this year's aid package to Israel, will it go along with requests for an estimated $10 billion in new equipment that Jerusalem is expected to ask for in future years? What will happen if the Jewish lobby persuades Congress to curtail the amount of aid promised Egypt...
...worth of goods, primarily oil from its jungle wells, coffee and bananas. But then hypernationalistic government ministers raised the price of oil 54&#cent; per bbl. above OPEC's price. In protest, the oil companies severely limited production. Although revenues plummeted, Ecuador's nouveau riche refused to curtail their lust for new foreign cars and TV sets, thereby helping to create a trade deficit that for the first six months of 1975 was an estimated $170 million...
Those two sardonic comments, overheard by a Western official, summarize the undercurrent of apprehension inside the Rumanian and Yugoslav governments in the wake of the Helsinki agreement. Both fear that the Soviet Union may be tempted to increase its pressure on Bucharest and Belgrade to forswear or curtail their independent ways...
...November. 1974. Former Minister of Mines for the Allende government. Bitar is now a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Development, where he is doing research on the political economy of his native country. He says that Amnesty has placed "much pressure" on the Chilean junta to curtail its repressive tactics. A recent Amnesty report on political imprisonment in Chile describes the situation in dry, detached language...