Word: curtailer
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...strength up to the full limit of the London Treaty, make its "second to none" boast a reality.) "To assemble the U. S. fleet for a period of not less than two months at least once a year." (That meant that Roosevelt economy would not, as widely feared, curtail the Navy's war games.) "To further the development of two main home bases on each coast." (That meant that, on the Atlantic, Norfolk and Narragansett Bay and, on the Pacific, Mare Island at San Francisco and Bremerton near Seattle would probably be developed as the major navy yards...
...common with other colleges, the Athletic Association during the past year has had increasing difficulty in keeping that plant out of the red. Beside the elimination of the "frills" which flourished in the years when money poured into the coffers of the H.A.A., resort has been had to curtailment of the number of trips allowed the various teams, and to moderate reductions in the size and salaries of the coaching staff. In making-up its budget for next year, the Athletic Association is faced with the necessity of making still further economies by either of two alternative measures...
...protest that has been made against the tremendous increase in the cost of maintaining educational institutions has resulted in a reduction and sometimes non-payment of teachers' salaries throughout the country. Under these circumstances, if every public agency and nearly every private agency has found it necessary to curtail educational costs through salary revisions downward, there is no method of logic by which one can justify immunity for even professors at Harvard University, sacred as is that institution...
...Harvard Business School, R. M. Russell '14, Mayor of Cambridge yesterday declared in a lively hearing of his proposed bill which will give control of the School Board Budget to the City Council, that "Cambridge was in revolt about the matter," and that it was necessary to curtail to prevent the city from defaulting on its loans...
...There is more advantage in seeing what can be done about it. And two things can be done. For one, budgets can be reduced in other ways than by attacking the schools. It is better, for example, to reduce the salaries of a few bloated. Tammany commissioners than to curtail the functioning of any New York public school. For two, schools could receive loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...