Word: curtailer
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...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...
...calls in wants to hear himself now, not tomorrow-and the programs are tape-delayed only the seven seconds that allow the t.j. to blank out any obscene words. Rarely does a t.j. lack for callers-a specter that haunts them all. More often the problem is how to curtail long-winded callers, and all the t.j.s have a stock of turnoff lines like, "Lady, my desk is on fire...
...department went out of its way to emphasize that news, public affairs, and documentary programming were not affected by its complaint. Yet if the suits succeed, the networks will lose substantial revenues from the shows they produce or hold rights to. That in turn could curtail the budgets of news and public affairs shows, and make an already nervous industry even more wary of the Administration...