Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FACT, Kissinger's use of the NSSM series to tie up Washington's civil service was a blunt, cynical attempt to alter the effectiveness of the National Security Council set-up. The options system had been designed to curtail the influence of the bureaucracy, not to remove it; but when the dust had cleared, the Cabinet departments had been rendered virtually ineffective in the choosing of policy. By foreclosing one source of ideas, Kissinger had eliminated the options that would derive from it. The result was that his own office had been measurably strengthened...
...intensity last week. The Senate began a lengthy debate on whether to give Nixon a two-year extension of the draft; many argued strongly against it. Senator John Stennis, conservative chairman of the Armed Services Committee and a loyal supporter of Administration military policies, introduced a resolution that would curtail presidential power to make future wars. After years of objecting to the heavy U.S. troop commitment in Europe, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took decisive action: he introduced an amendment to the draft bill that would compel the Administration to reduce American forces in NATO by one-half...
...other city news, Charles R. Nesson, professor of Law, and other lawyers representing a group of Cambridge tenants, failed yesterday for the second time to get a restraining order to curtail the granting of rent increase adjustments...
...working days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since the great General Strike of 1926. Last week a one-day protest strike against Heath's proposed Industrial Relations Bill-designed to curtail wildcat strikes by making union contracts legally binding-involved more than 1,200,000 workers. Another such walkout is planned for next week...
...same 111-in. wheelbase chassis as Chevy's compact Nova. Ford introduced a second model of its front-running Pinto subcompact, a "runabout" that has an upward-opening rear door much like the Vega's or Gremlin's. Increased supplies of the Vega may help to curtail sales of imports too; Chevy still has not reached its goal of building 1,600 Vegas a day, but hopes to do so in late March or early April...