Word: curtailer
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...bill is designed to update and stream-line the enormous body of federal criminal codes, but civil rights activists contend that it will curtail individual liberties by adding a series of new laws against activities such as protesting at nuclear power plants and publishing certain information leaked by government sources...
...president, Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates, last week indicated that further price reductions might force the organization to institute some cuts in output in order to firm up prices. But OPEC has never in its history been able to agree upon a program to curtail production by all members...
Especially scary about that proposal is its implicit attack on another target: the Supreme Court. Last week's legislation--and a host of other bills pending before Congress many sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R.N.C.)--would dramatically curtail the Court in dealing with social issues. If those efforts succeed, the forces of the New Right would be given free reign to roll back many of the civil liberties gains of the last 20 years, among them Court decisions legalizing abortion, limiting school prayer and setting forth stringent requirements for the application of the death penalty...
...deliberate striving to hurl the world back to the dark times of the cold war." Said the official Soviet news agency: "Washington's rulers are in a hurry to whip up a campaign of hatred against socialist countries, to undermine the foundations of Soviet-American relations, and to curtail them to a minimum...
...think that war will last forever. I will work for that day." One of Labadi's assistants enters the room to curtail the interview. The funeral procession is about to begin...