Word: curtails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unoriginal plots have made good films before. Fine acting and unusual direction could transform this dry tale into an honest, intense look at a family in crisis. Yorkin, however, does as much as he possibly can to curtail any such developments, repeatedly placing his characters against technicolor skies as they set off to build new lives across the rainbow in Puget Sound...
...continue to use more of their income for interest payments, they can be badly hurt by a slowdown in growth. Another sign of corporate weakness, a decline in capital investment, may soon appear. A Government survey released last week reported that U.S. businesses, after adjusting for price increases, will curtail their spending in plant and equipment by 1% in 1986. This year, in comparison, it is estimated that these expenditures will have risen by more than 5%. In 1984, when the recovery was at its peak, capital investment surged...
...attempts to curtail corporate consolidations will be opposed by many Wall Streeters and takeover specialists. They argue that such action will only safeguard the jobs of incompetent company executives. Says Pickens: "What the Fed and Cuomo are doing is wrong. It will just further entrench entrenched management. They will finally get all doors closed so that they can go about their business as usual...
Rostenkowski's bill would cut taxes for most individuals and preserve the deductions for second-home mortgages and state taxes that Reagan proposed to curtail, but it would raise tax liability sharply for corporations. The Republicans this week will offer a bill of their own that scales back the added business tax burden from some $140 billion to about $100 billion. In the Democrat-controlled House, the G.O.P. alternative has virtually no chance of passage, so the President's only hope of keeping the issue alive is to support the Democratic version...
...withdraw my references to the 'severe' nature of the reprimand, and my implication that the Ad Board may be seeking to chill legitimate dissent as well as curtail improper conduct," he said in a letter printed last week...