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Word: curtailments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conservationists. The bill also stipulates that once approval has been given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a plant, it cannot be stalled by further litigation, except on grounds of health or safety. Though that seems a huge loophole, the Government hopes that the provision will curtail the protracted environmental lawsuits that have hobbled the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Carter Speeds Up the Nukes | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...more important than whether West Germany and Japan expand their economies is whether the U.S. can manage to curtail its wanton consumption of imported oil. As President Carter grimly noted last spring in his energy address to the nation, if present trends continue, the country's oil deficit by 1985 will total a mind-stretching $550 billion. With the world monetary system already buckling under the weight of the nation's existing oil deficit, it is not hard to envision the disruptions that will follow from a more than tenfold increase in the burden during the next seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Propping the Dollar at Last | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...SASC proposals urge the Corporation to sell its stock in two commercial banks that make loans to the South Africa government and to sponsor shareholder resolutions calling for companies in which it owns stock to either curtail or withdraw their South African investments...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Student Proposals on Investment In South Africa Go to ASCR | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Jerusalem is almost too big for him and Wife Aliza, 57, now that two of their three children are married. They also have a Tel Aviv apartment, where he used to hold open house for friends. It is perhaps his only regret as Premier that he has had to curtail such evenings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Begin: A Courtly Spartan | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...proposals urge the Corporation to sell all stock it owns in commercial banks that lend to the South African government. The SASC also asked the Corporation to support or sponsor a shareholder resolution that would curtail companies' operation in South Africa...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Students Send South Africa Letter to Bok | 11/16/1977 | See Source »

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