Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationwide demand rose sharply over the past two weeks, the pipeline companies scrambled to line up additional supplies of gas and eventually had to tell many industrial customers to curtail their use of gas drastically or shut down altogether. With the Government energy bureaucracy unable even to keep adequate track of the shutdowns, much less manage the crisis, the natural-gas situation became the first practical problem confronting the new Carter Administration...
...routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season and get out and into another market." To compete with the charter outfits, the scheduled lines claim they may eventually be forced to curtail their regular services. Possible result: lowered earnings for the big carriers, who have already had plenty of profit problems in recent years...
...code of conduct accompanying the raises would severely curtail outside earned income, such as legal and directors' fees and honorariums for speeches. It would require complete financial disclosure of all income, gifts, debts and personal holdings. Strict conflict-of-interest standards would be applied. Restrictions would be placed on the kinds of jobs that people could take when leaving Government. The report urges abolition of "revolving-door arrangements through which company executives, Government regulators and contract negotiators pass freely, changing hats or uniforms as they go, doing damage to public respect for Government...
Coburn said that in order to curtail the Fogg's expenses in the future, the museum staff "will have to think long in advance and make plans...
Advocating "quiet diplomacy," Ford is willing to authorize secret negotiations when he thinks they are necessary and occasional CIA covert operations. He also argues that any U.S. action concerning internal repression in such countries as Iran and South Korea is best advanced "quietly" rather than by public threats to curtail aid or trade. Drawing a distinction between morality and moralizing, Kissinger noted last week that a key test of morality is "what we are able to implement," adding that the Administration has secured the release of "hundreds of prisoners throughout the world" without publicity...