Word: curtailer
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...Showing from Feb. 27 to March 25 is work from the young British-Indian video and performance artist Kiran Kaur Brar. "Gallery culture will take a while to catch on, but we are in this for the long run," says Jiwarajka. Let's hope another market crash doesn't curtail their plans...
...banks. (Administration officials say the proposed rule would apply to any firm that owns a bank with federally insured deposits, which Lehman and Bear both did.) What's more, critics say, if you were to limit financial firms to just making loans and buying low-risk securities, you would curtail profits and run many firms out of business. With fewer financial firms, other corporations might have to pay higher fees to raise money...
...raised concerns of a possible return to more authoritarian rule were she to win. But Oleh Rybachuk, a former chief of staff to Yushchenko and a Deputy Prime Minister in Tymoshenko's government says that while Ukrainians may want a strong leader, they won't allow a politician to curtail their freedoms. "Ukraine is not Russia," he says. (See the top 10 news stories...
...compiled by another panel that cited alleged ties to the outlawed Baath Party once led by Saddam Hussein. The move threatened to spark sectarian strife by angering members of the country's Sunni minority, who claimed they would be disproportionately affected and saw the ruling as an attempt to curtail their participation...
...have his hands full at home with his party's loss of Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, the collapse of health care reform and a disorganized war against the banks, he now faces a major foreign policy setback. Since the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama has promised to curtail Iran's nuclear program by simultaneously offering talks and threatening sanctions. After a year of trying, both approaches appear on the verge of failure...