Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money to build one, the plan lay gathering dust until last spring, when Bing's successor, Göran Gentele, took it up. Gentele's plan to use the Juilliard School Opera Theater fell through, but the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, forced by inadequate funding to curtail its season, offered the Forum...
Drained. Burger "has good sense of pace," says one of his colleagues. The Chief knows when to curtail drifting discussion and when to call a temper-cooling coffee break. But there are inevitable undercurrents of tension on the ideologically split court. While one Justice speaks of another as "a great storyteller, quick with very funny stories about cases he's tried," still another grouses that the conferences occasionally get bogged down with "war stories about famous cases I have judged." The occasional jokes that lighten the sessions tend to be a bit lawyerly. "For instance," explains a Justice, "somebody...
...Circuit Court Judge last night assailed the Supreme Court for what he called attempts to curtail the First Amendment rights of American citizens...
...they promise to be permanent. Given the current financial and political climate, Harvard is destined to generate the same negative side-effects with every expansionist move. The University ought seriously to reconsider its commitment to expansion, and by implication, to equal admissions. A more prudent course would be to curtail expansion until a more auspicious time. To compensate for curtailing growth, male enrollment should be cut to make room for more women. Whether equal admissions on these terms would require too deep a cut in the male class is a proper subject of concern. The admissions offices are best equipped...
...cash. In Mississippi, to take an egregious case, the state budget for social services was inflated from less than $2 million last year to a planned $460 million for the current fiscal year. Three-quarters of this would have come from Washington-except that Congress is now moving to curtail abuses by limiting such grants to the amount a state or community spent in the last fiscal year...