Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some kind of turbulence had seemed imminent ever since French students fathomed the implications of an almost impenetrable, 68-article scheme for restructuring French education, proposed last September by Education Minister Alain Savary. The plan threatens, for example, to curtail subjects like art restoration and comparative Literature that are not deemed useful to society. As originally drafted, moreover, it suggests that all high school graduates be allowed to enter a university. Some 75% of them would be eliminated through competitive exams after two years, thus implicitly encouraging students to pursue technical training. The protesters also object to a provision that...
...sear-old labor leader said the decision to give him his job back was intended in part to help authorities keep track of him and thereby curtail his contacts with the under ground...
Months ago, Reagan asked the Europeans to curtail trade with the East bloc, overlooking the more pressing difficulties with European trade in his own backyard. This month American imports will be more expensive in France, German exports more costly to buy here. If the uncertainty continues, U.S.-European trade may itself be in jeopardy--an ironic predicament for the man with the Adam Smith tie, about to host his first international summit...
...when Robert Brustein and his American Repertory Theatre (ART) came to Cambridge in a unique partnership between drama and academia, the controversy lasted from September until May. Most student dramatists opposed the experiment, fearing that sharing the Loeb building and stage with a professional troupe would inhibit experimentation and curtail student opportunities. And when the deal finally went through, vocal opponents may well have taken comfort in the thought that the contract mandated a full-scale review four years later a review which, according to Faculty rules, could result in anything from a rubber stamp on the arrangement...
...enjoy the capacity to hide not only legitimate sensitive material but incompetence, wrong judgments and ethical transgressions. It is no wonder that in democracies as well as in tyrannies, government tends to expand its capacity to hoard information. The U.S., to be sure, took steps to check and curtail this federal capacity in the wake of the excesses surrounding the Viet Nam War, the Watergate scandals and some mischief credited to the CIA and FBI in recent decades. The Government has nonetheless already accumulated a good deal of momentum toward a yet greater capacity for keeping the public...