Word: curtailing
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Tondel was the band's painter, counsel, historian, outfitter, and personality during the 50s, 60s, and 70s, according to Director Thomas G. Everett. While she remained interested in the band's activities, "Mom" was forced to curtail her relationship with the musicians in the past few years because of health concerns...
...Alcohol brings up rape and date rape," he said. "We have to curtail the sale of alcohol to students...
...final factor that is bound to curtail indefinite expansion is the natural law that insists the built-in cost of growth is change. That, of course, is what the natives resent most of all. As a longtime advocate of managed growth, Lamm, for one, is worried that Westerners with their traditional sense of independence will continue to wave off essential land-use planning and allow Denver, say, to become "the Los Angeles of tomorrow." Others point out that some of that nefarious future has arrived. Denver this summer has been gripped by anxiety over a sudden surge of gang violence...
...China is getting new missile technology from Russia and Ukraine. This is ominous, he said, not only because the transfers improve China's military capabilities, but also because China could pass this more advanced technology to other states. So far, the U.S. has been unable to persuade China to curtail its sales...
Meanwhile, the assault on Clinton's economic plan has imperiled the timing of his other crucial initiative, health-care reform. Because the President had planned to use the Medicare cuts to help pay for health-care reforms later this summer, Clinton's aides are now debating whether to curtail the scope of the reforms or postpone them until next year, or both. "Just look what happened to the BTU tax," said one official. "When you've got something that entails controversy and hard choices, why put it out there and let it sit there and get pummeled?" At a dinner...