Word: curtailing
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...announce new price increases at its December meeting in Venezuela. The Saudis, who have held their price at the cartel minimum of $18 per bbl., may raise it closer to the levels of other producers: $23.50 or more. At the same time, several OPEC producers have announced plans to curtail production next year, while Iran, Dubai and other producers are continuing to divert oil to the spot market, where it can fetch at least...
...similarly helped out Jimmy Carter. This fund-raising mode was facilitated by a financing law that allowed concert receipts to be considered as donations not of the performers but of ticket-buying members of the audience. There will be more political concerts though the law has been tightened to curtail the federal matching money that can be awarded...
...first step, we urge that the current, temporary military rulers of South Korea activate the provision in Park's 1972 constitution that established a national council of unification to select the next president. Furthermore, that constitution should be amended to curtail the executive powers that Park exploited and to expand the power of the National Assembly, now a mere rubberstamp body...
Major economic disasters might force Harvard to curtail academic programs or pay more attention to the financial resources of applicants. Putnam says, "Things maybe won't work the way we want them, and there might be disasters, but I think we can handle them...
...might be thought by any observer from that region of the country known as "Away" that the Chamber had rudely refused to curtail its customary order of business because its members figured Nixon's hopes were only slightly more realistic than Harold Stassen's. My guess, however, is that these New Hampshire Republicans knew he was going to win. They did not approve of anyone, even a member of their own party, who wanted to associate himself with the Federal Government, and they intended to show their feelings while they had the chance...