Word: curtails
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...major legislative triumph of Reagan's second term. A reduction in capital-gains levies would erode the reform principle that earned and unearned income should be taxed equally. Bush also retains an unmistakable affection for the kind of special-interest tax breaks that the 1986 legislation was designed to curtail. The President has quietly asked Congress for $2.7 billion annual tax reductions for business, including $400 million for oilmen, who include some of Bush's most faithful supporters. In comparison, the Administration's aggressively ballyhooed child- care tax credits for low-income families would cost around $2.5 billion...
Jeffords said he cast his vote yesterday to make clear his view that judges are badly in need of a pay raise and because, unlike last week's measure, this one did not curtail lawmakers' rights to make speeches for fees...
Josu Ternera is thought to have been responsible for the assassination of the Spanish Prime Minister in 1973. Police believe the arrests will seriously curtail the terrorist activities...
Economic planning seems to be in disarray. Pricing officials announced two weeks ago that state subsidies for such consumer goods as fabrics and some appliances would be modestly increased. But the plan contradicts Gorbachev's announced intention to make prices reflect the true costs of production and to curtail subsidies. Last week authorities unveiled new rules barring private cooperatives from engaging in certain kinds of businesses -- for example, selling jewelry and renting videos. Only five days before these restrictions were announced, Gorbachev had called for a "stronger cooperative movement" during...
...Similarly, King Hussein's decision last July to curtail Jordan's role in the West Bank removes for the near future the option of letting Amman act as a reluctant surrogate for the Palestinians...