Word: curtailment
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...Congress has already begun its 107th session. This period in Congress is usually one for deciding the leadership, setting committee assignments and preparing for the session to come. This year, however, Congress has more important business to pursue. The next 15 days offer a unique chance for Congress to curtail the powerful voices of the special interests in politics and to pass the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill...
Former Computer Science 50 head teaching fellows Daniel J. Ellard and Penny Ellard have traditionally opened their Lowell House residence to students on Thanksgiving--a tradition they decided to curtail this year...
...while he's still working hard at the University, he's beginning to curtail his presence in some areas, feeling that his successor should be the one to make certain decisions...
...trend has political scientists and civic activists complaining like never before: Campaign finance laws, such as they are, exist to curtail the political influence of individual donors and interest groups by limiting campaign contributions to $2,000. Under existing legislation, however, those same donors can funnel unlimited funds into the Republican or Democratic parties, which in turn use the cash to buy campaign advertisements...
Cellucci's first initiative, which would tie the hands of judges and turn the sentencing process into some sort of mathematical equation, is not the answer. Cellucci has said the state should adopt strict sentencing guidelines, drawn up in 1994 but never implemented. The sentencing rules would severely curtail a judge's discretion in determining a criminal's punishment. By matching a defendant's previous record against the crime, a grid would reveal the maximum penalty a judge could give. Two-thirds of that sentence would be the minimum. If the judge issued a sentence outside those bounds, either...