Word: curtailer
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...fighting in Sinai? Even if Congress approves this year's aid package to Israel, will it go along with requests for an estimated $10 billion in new equipment that Jerusalem is expected to ask for in future years? What will happen if the Jewish lobby persuades Congress to curtail the amount of aid promised Egypt...
Those two sardonic comments, overheard by a Western official, summarize the undercurrent of apprehension inside the Rumanian and Yugoslav governments in the wake of the Helsinki agreement. Both fear that the Soviet Union may be tempted to increase its pressure on Bucharest and Belgrade to forswear or curtail their independent ways...
...November. 1974. Former Minister of Mines for the Allende government. Bitar is now a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Development, where he is doing research on the political economy of his native country. He says that Amnesty has placed "much pressure" on the Chilean junta to curtail its repressive tactics. A recent Amnesty report on political imprisonment in Chile describes the situation in dry, detached language...
While Evanston's violence does not begin to match that in many of the high schools in neighboring Chicago or other big cities, it threatens to erode the quality of the education available to the school's 4,700 students. The music department had to curtail some of its independent study programs after someone stole the recording equipment. Business classes were hampered this spring by the theft of 13 typewriters and calculators. The daily schedule was revised to cut back on students' free time. Rest rooms on the third floor were closed after they became hangouts...
...braved union opposition to begin layoffs of thousands of city employees, won concessions that would lead to policemen's working five days in the next 15 months without pay, and tightened work rules in a number of city departments. Last week he announced that he would sharply curtail the city's borrowing, reduce police, fire and sanitation services, increase teachers' workloads and raise real estate taxes by 10%. The measures are designed to save the city some $135 million in the fiscal year that begins in July, and to impress on local bankers that .Beame is serious...