Word: curtailment
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...latest effort to curtail funding has angered victims of the attacks. Stephen Push, a leader of the 9/11 victims' families, who are closely monitoring the commission, said the White House decision was another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the panel's role. "I think the fact that they didn't include it-didn't warn Gov. Kean that they weren't going to include it, didn't return my phone call-suggests to me that they see this as a convenient way for allowing the commission to fail," said Push. "They've never wanted...
...include thousands of judges, journalists, politicians and businessmen, who are under constant guard. "It's like the hardest days of the Franco dictatorship, when police informers were everywhere," says Amuchagui. "But now we don't know who the informers are." No one really believes that banning Egunkaria will curtail the cycle of fear and violence. No specific evidence linking the paper to ETA has been formally aired, but press reports suggest that the government's case rests largely on several documents, seized in raids on ETA commandos in the early '90s, in which ETA members expressed preferences for certain editors...
...article suggests reforming patent laws to curtail exclusive marketing rights for drugs and banning advertisements that market perscription drugs directly to patients...
...than in its early ones. And they only increase my resolve to make sure that those for whom abortion is the right choice can make this decision as early and as easily as possible. I only hope that, noting the manifold ways that the Bush administration has tried to curtail this right, others might be persuaded to do the same...
...latest example of resurgent European anti-Semitism, administrators at the University of Paris 6 (which specializes in natural sciences) voted in December to curtail cooperation with Israeli academics. The vote, which has since been reversed, is a grave attack on the universality of science and academic freedom, and has raised deep questions about whether academic boycotts can ever be justified...