Word: curtails
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...chances, Primakov has been plucking weeds from the U.S.-Russia agenda. Last week he took steps to have the Duma ratify the long-delayed START II treaty, which will slash U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals by two-thirds. And his Nuclear Energy Minister hinted that the country might curtail some of the atomic work with Iran that prompted U.S. sanctions. The two nations have some clearly irreconcilable differences--Iraq and Kosovo, in particular. At home millions of Russians are souring on the U.S. A U.S. Information Agency poll found that 75% of Russians believe the U.S. is "using Russia...
Addressing the subject of his latest book, The Limits of Privacy, Etzioni explained when and why it might be necessary to curtail individuals' privacy rights...
...foreign investors finally deem the current account deficit to be out of hand. That would make the U.S. less attractive to foreign investors and depress the stock market, turning the wealth effect that has made Americans so willing to buy on credit into a bad hangover. And if Americans curtail their buying, that will kill the main engine of recent U.S. expansion, which in turn will stunt other economies, particularly Asian and Latin American countries that aim to build their recoveries around pumping up exports...
...opinion but in politics. In the '80s liberal advocacy for the homeless was of a piece with Democratic outrage at Reagan Administration policies toward the poor. But the homeless issue also splintered urban liberalism, sending some working- and middle-class voters into the arms of Republicans who vowed to curtail entitlements and tighten the screws on vagrancy. To survive, Democrats revised their image as the party of the dispossessed by acceding to welfare reform, cutting aid to the homeless and courting the middle class. As liberals drifted toward the margins of the political landscape, so did the homeless...
College administrators say they aren't happy with the news, but they accept illicit drug use as an inevitable part of college life, particularly one where the social scene is lacking. Meanwhile, students says there is little that can be done by administrators or peer groups to curtail drug use on campus...