Word: curtailing
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...first time since 1980, General Motors ordered deep cuts in the dividends it pays to stockholders -- from 75 cents to 40 cents a share. GM also said it will curtail executive bonuses this year and phase out 15,000 white-collar jobs by 1993. The dividend cut alone will save $840 million a year...
Mayor Alice K. Wolf said that, if passed, the order could be perceived as an attempt to curtail the First Amendment rights of Cambridge citizens. "I feel that [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein would have an immense victory if he were able to muffle the free speech of the people in our country," Wolf said...
...many Soviets interpret the measure differently. They see it as one more piece of evidence that Mikhail Gorbachev has given way to hard-line pressures to curtail the reforms he ushered in himself. In the past month the Kremlin has sent the army into the Baltic republics, tightened controls over television and radio, outlawed 50- and 100-ruble notes and seems to have shelved plans for introducing a market economy. Gorbachev has also authorized KGB fraud squads to stamp out so-called economic crime. A new era of repression seems to be in the making...
...vowing to deploy the POWs as human shields at "civilian, economic, educational and other targets," Saddam aimed to curtail the allied aerial campaign, the plan backfired as miserably as his earlier threat to put the now released Western hostages to the same use. "America is angry about this," said an irritated President Bush. "If ((Saddam)) thought this brutal treatment of pilots is the way to muster world support, he is dead wrong." Saddam's tactics also aroused disgust in Europe. "He's a man without pity," said British Prime Minister John Major. Both Bush and Major hinted that they might...
...intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not only that, he continued, but by invading Afghanistan "we had set ourselves against all humanity, ignored universal human values." Finally, he said, Moscow planned "to curtail all our military bases as well as our military presence abroad by the year...