Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...significant shift toward smaller, lighter cars (although many cars designed to meet the gradually increasing gasoline-efficiency standards, and thus avoid a tax penalty, could readily seat six people), but that trend has already begun. People on limited incomes might well have to plan shopping trips more carefully and curtail nonessential driving. Teen-agers in middle-income families might have to bicycle to school instead of driving their own cars...
...unprecedented action, the Corporation this week voted in favor of a shareholder resolution attempting to curtail the Arab boycott of Israel. The anti-boycott move came on a vote-which Harvard cast yesterday at Manufacturers Hanover Trust's annual shareholders meeting-seeking to stop the bank from issuing restrictive letters of credit complying with the Arab boycott...
...ACSR had never previously supported a resolution seeking to curtail the Arab boycott. Last year, the committee reasoned that the federal government must take the lead role in curtailing the boycott...
...curtail waste of energy and tap the nation's coal reserves so that the U.S. can stretch out oil and gas supplies until past the turn of the century, when new sources of energy, such as fusion, geothermal and solar power, will be coming on-stream in a significant way. Though it is still subject to change, here is how the Administration's new energy program now looks...
...prospective extension of price controls to intrastate gas is a bad mistake; it destroys that gas as a valuable yardstick of what the commodity really is worth in a free market. Since price is the quickest means for conservation, year-by-year increases in gasoline taxes could eventually curtail unnecessary driving and force more use of mass transit. Unfortunately, this is one of the proposals least likely to be in the final program...