Word: curtailer
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...constitutional amendment two years ago, required state and local governments to conduct their business in English. Although a state court had earlier upheld the provision, federal district Judge Paul Rosenblatt concluded that the law violated First Amendment guarantees. He ruled that the law forced government officials and employees "to curtail their free-speech rights" by impermissibly tying their tongues in their dealings with non-English-speaking constituents. Arizona Governor Rose Mofford, who criticized the law as "flawed from the beginning," promised not to appeal...
...Faculty should approve the creation of the committee and encourage it to formulate an anti-harassment code. Harvard would do well to emulate the action taken at Emory University to curtail the use of what the Supreme Court has called "fighting" words...
Bush said the measure also could damage U.S. relations with China, which has condemned the legislation and threatened to curtail exchange programs if it becomes...
...Government does not exist to pay statelobbyists, technocrats and consultants who lurk inevery nook and cranny of our state agencies...Wemust curtail government spending, but we do nothave to make people suffer," Bellotti said...
Romania virtually sealed its borders, blocking or restricting travel from neighboring Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and from other countries, in an apparent effort to curtail reports of the unrest at Timisoara, in western Romania...