Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government, whether under Republican or Democratic auspices, can curtail inflation and revive the economy by using such tools as controls and guidelines, free enterprise will be greatly strengthened. When the economy is growing, entrepreneurs have a much greater opportunity to start and enlarge businesses. When costs are stable, established businessmen find it much easier to lower the prices of their own products in pursuit of competitiveness...
Boston's choice of Ozawa ended a wearying man hunt. In a bit of jet-setting of his own, the Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg took on the Boston post for a three-year period, in 1969, succeeding Erich Leinsdorf, but had to curtail his activities almost immediately because of ill health. With Pittsburgh's schedule expanding, and because of the heavy dual load, Steinberg, 72, decided early on not to return to Boston next year...
...impasse and with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat making threatening noises, "1972 will be a decisive year." Last week he declared: "I won't give my hand to cutting 100 or 200 tanks from our forces." His aides meanwhile put out stories that Israel would have to curtail purchases of bombs and shells and construction of forts if the defense budget were cut too sharply. Bar-Lev was no help to Dayan. He allowed that, if the cease-fire continued, reserve duty could be reduced, resulting in considerable savings...
...curtail terrorism, the Israelis imposed curfews, increased military patrols and searches of Arab population. Currently the Israelis are trying to thin out the population of the crowded camps; in the Jabalia camp, where this year alone some 40 Arabs have been murdered, presumably by Palestinian guerrillas, 1,500 people have been moved to other quarters. In addition, a 9-ft-high fence topped with barbed wire is being built on the 25-mile eastern perimeter of the Strip...
...such figures do not explain the rise of high-level profiteering. Under Diem, corruption was relatively restrained and furtive. Today it permeates the hierarchy, in large part because President Nguyen Van Thieu has made no convincing moves to curtail it. His supporters point out that he is restrained from effective action by the fact that his political base includes a number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other...