Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next, they agreed to cut Common Market oil consumption by half over the next seven years. The pledge obviously put strong new pressure on Carter to curtail U.S. oil imports as well. In return, the Europeans were prepared to offer a concession of their own-an indication by West Germany of willingness to expand its economy slightly, thus complying with a long-standing U.S. demand that Bonn pull its weight and help move the world economy toward real recovery...
...homeowner's tax tab by one-third. "The measure could be very difficult to defeat," warns Robert Ridgley, recently retired chairman of the Portland public school board. He fears that the "effect on schools would be devastating." Supporters of the proposal blame the state legislature for its failure to curtail the property tax long ago. Says State Representative Al Shaw: "The legislature's attitude has been to sit tight and wait for things to blow over. Things won't blow over this time...
...Saudis [May 22] have proved their sincerity toward us through their support of the dollar and constant efforts to curtail OPEC oil-price hikes. Now it's our turn. I applaud President Carter's display of fairness in this matter; it's about time someone realized that friendship is a two-way street...
...support. It has at least a fifty-fifty chance of becoming law. If it does, property taxes for all Californians will be slashed by 57%, beginning July 1. City, county, town and school administrators figure that they would lose some $7 billion a year. Either they would have to curtail services severely or the state, whose budget already totals $12.5 billion, would have to rescue them-presumably by increasing other taxes. As a result, officials are bracing for what they call "Black Wednesday," fearful that they may awaken on June 7 to find that the long-brewing taxpayers' revolt...
...executive secretary for the Boston office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday if the Supreme Court supports Bakke, the effect will be to "legalize a moral and political code that is hostile to the aspirations and rights of underprivileged groups, and will effectively curtail" the modest civil rights gains...