Word: curtailer
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...Harvard's investment policy remain, there will be protest--and it will be as unremitting, vocal and publicized as ever. Furthermore, if it is perceived that the Board was deliberately and unjustly heavy-handed in their treatment of students-if it is felt that they seek not only to curtail "improper" conduct but also to chill ligitimate dissent, few students, I believe, will stand...
...curtail the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, if that would mean a deal with the Soviet Union to reduce nuclear weapons? The Reagan Administration last week began a strenuous effort to explain why it is reluctant to do so: because the Soviets began missile- defense research long before the U.S. did, and may have a large lead...
...China, which denies that its methods are coercive. But a bigger threat lies ahead. Unless it withdraws from China or persuades Peking to change its policies, the U.N. agency will not get another dime from the U.S. That would cut its budget by $46 million and curtail its population-control efforts...
...Smoot-Hawley tariff act in 1930 (see box). Just enough Senators and Representatives will change their minds on a revote to sustain the veto. Then will follow a confused struggle between legislators fearful of a trade war yet determined to force Reagan to do more to promote exports and curtail imports, and a President wary of drastic moves yet aware that he has to do something to start trimming the trade deficit...
Shattuck said White House and Pentagon officials are saying they will still try to curtail the export of information. He said he is unsure whether the government will concentrate its efforts on private companies or on foreign travel here...