Word: curtailing
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...girls, as important as sex is the desire to "love." But an early expectation of romance can soon be replaced by harsh reality. Disillusion is especially rapid when the husband has to curtail his education or children arrive too early...
...Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help ward off any possible invasion by Turkey. Ever since then, Makarios has been appealing to Athens to curtail Grivas' powers, and to put the local Cypriot National Guard back under Cypriot control...
...prime hardening metals, is so scarce that steelmakers frequently are forced to buy on a grey market, where they pay speculators double or triple the going price of $2.04 a lb. Even so, most smaller companies that specialize in alloy steels have been forced to turn down orders, curtail production, and extend delivery-lead times from two months to as long as four...
...transfer Father Maurice Ouellet from a Negro parish in Selma because he had let his rectory serve as a headquarters for the Selma marchers. At the request of Albany's Bishop William Scully, the Franciscans ordered Father Bonaventure O'Brien of St. Bernardine of Siena College to curtail his civil rights work. And last week the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, president of St. John's University on Long Island, fired 28 faculty members, including three priests,* for protesting the school's policy on academic freedom, tenure and curriculum policy. Ten of the ousted teachers...
...members balked, however, at going all the way with the French. They brushed aside French proposals to 1) permanently curtail the commission's powers, 2) settle the current dispute between France and the five outside EEC's structure, and 3) alter the treaty creating the Common Market so that France will not automatically lose its power to veto Common Market decisions, as it is scheduled to do in January...