Word: curtailing
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...cannot be denied that these actions helped put material pressure on the government to curtail its activities in Cambodia. But by ignoring the central questions which had shaped its identity, the antiwar movement, it is now clear, paid a terrible price for its success. 1970 was the year of the nationwide strike and the burning of ROTC buildings; it was also the year of polarization and the hard-hats...
...report maintained that the overwhelming majority of marijuana users do not turn to hard drugs. It also found little link between marijuana and crime or violence, and even suggested that less regulation of marijuana might curtail the use of heroin by taking "the young marijuana user out of a criminal drug-using culture...
...Credits. When the army seized power in 1964, Brazil was nearly broke and veering toward chaos after years of left-wing leadership. Overreacting, the generals used fear and torture to crush political opposition and curtail civil liberties. To cool the dangerously overheated economy, Economic Planning Minister Roberto Campos introduced an unpopular but necessary austerity program. In 1967 the government started pushing economic growth, and the generals brought in as Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto, a brilliant, bullying Sao Paulo State finance secretary and former economics professor. Delfim has been given a free hand in running the economy...
...Government, whether under Republican or Democratic auspices, can curtail inflation and revive the economy by using such tools as controls and guidelines, free enterprise will be greatly strengthened. When the economy is growing, entrepreneurs have a much greater opportunity to start and enlarge businesses. When costs are stable, established businessmen find it much easier to lower the prices of their own products in pursuit of competitiveness...
Boston's choice of Ozawa ended a wearying man hunt. In a bit of jet-setting of his own, the Pittsburgh Symphony's William Steinberg took on the Boston post for a three-year period, in 1969, succeeding Erich Leinsdorf, but had to curtail his activities almost immediately because of ill health. With Pittsburgh's schedule expanding, and because of the heavy dual load, Steinberg, 72, decided early on not to return to Boston next year...