Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry -which provides 40% of the nation's wealth but less than 1% of its jobs-into agriculture. Although Venezuela has vast tracts of potentially productive farm land, agriculture has been so mismanaged that the country will have to import $450 million worth of food this year. To curtail a rural exodus that has already concentrated 78% of his 12 million countrymen in the nation's major cities, Pérez has offered incentives to lure people back to the fields. The government promised to assume past debts incurred by small farmers. It also removed price restraints...
...Church in America, troubled by high interest rates on mortgage loans, has imposed a moratorium on purchasing sites and building new churches. Despite a large rise in costs, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will take in some $20 million this year, just even with 1973. It may have to curtail activities...
...world's reserves* of grain have reached a 22-year low, equal to about 26 days' supply, compared with a 95-day supply in 1961, according to Lester Brown, a leading U.S. food expert. Low harvests and high prices have forced the traditional surplus-producing nations to curtail the amount of food that they normally give as aid to the hungry nations. For example, unless the U.S. adopts an expanded program, American aid this year will drop 50% in some categories. Sales of food are also shrinking. Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, Burma and the Common Market nations have restricted...
Snow Job. Sampson had altered that proposed budget to curtail the unsupportable $100,000 allocation for miscellaneous expenses. In seeming exchange, however, he added a $110,000 item for a special vault to house Nixon's tapes and papers at Laguna Niguel, within 20 miles of San Clemente...
...coordinate research and development of alternate sources of energy and agree to guarantee profitable prices to people who produce, say, oil from shale or tar sands; 2) work out a common program to build six-month stockpiles of oil and share imports among themselves if the exporters again curtail or shut off supplies; 3) agree that they will not try to get the cash to pay for oil by unduly pushing exports to and curtailing imports from each other; 4) especially important, develop coordinated programs to conserve energy. If the world continues to increase energy consumption by 5.6% a year...