Word: curtailer
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Well, that's it exactly. The books are in the red because members of Congress fear that making the tough choices required to achieve balance could curtail their careers. But if they could only serve briefly, perhaps they would do their duty rather than prattle on about a vacuous contrivance like...
Instead of easing restrictions regarding foreign arms sales, the U.S. should seek more vigilantly to reduce these sales. An agreement with the Russians to jointly curtail military exports would also be an extremely effective method of harnessing the world arms trade. The Cold War is over, and Americans should reap a peace dividend. Instead of exploiting new markets, our military contractors need to stop mortgaging future world peace and convert more of their output to civilian goods...
...Ohio) said Clinton's plan doesn't go far enough. The Administration "failed to eliminate any departments or agencies," Kasich said. "This administration must do more, and be far more specific." Clinton promised to oppose any cuts that "undermine our economic recovery," hurt the poor, hamper education or curtail environmental protection...
Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- shocking most of the Administration -- dared both Democrats and Republicans to match the GOP's Monday proposal to curtail welfare benefits with drastic cuts in "corporate welfare," his term for billions of dollars inbusiness tax credits and subsidies. The address to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council had originally been billed as the last of Reich's triptych on "the anxious middle class." But Reich, apparently reacting to the election results and the new GOP attack on welfare policy, delivered a tirade against what he identified as $225 billion in tax benefits for particular industries. "Since...
President Neil L. Rudenstine said in an interview yesterday he was unaware of student public service leaders' warning that they may curtail service programming if the administration approves recommended changes to the University's public service structure...