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Library officials asked students to curtail their working hours voluntarily about two weeks ago, one student worker said, adding that most were happy to do so because of holidays and exams...
...This (news) item," Moore said, "would need nation-wide circulation in order to reach all the potential contributors and curtail their donations," thus curtailing the success of King's spring project...
...March 26, 1968, agent G.C. Moore set forth a plan to "curtail the success" of King's "poor people's march on Washington D.C." In his letter--which was obtained by the Select Senate Committee--Moore pointed out that the SCLC had solicited financial contributions from some 70,000 possible donors by mail. He suggested that this fact be publicized through "cooperative media contacts" to imply "that King does not need contributions from the 70,000 people he solicited. Since the churches have offered support, no more money is needed and any contributed would only be used by King...
Certainly, reformers do not want an end to all regulation. But most agree that many of the pre-1960s agencies have outlived much of their usefulness and that their rules, once necessary to curtail the old robber barons, now work to inhibit natural competition and accelerate inflation. These agencies do little if anything to improve the quality of life, and deregulation, as proved by the CAB'S move to free air fares and the SEC's loosening of brokers' commission rates, can quickly and dramatically cut prices...
...previous years, shareholder resolutions asking other companies that market infant formulas in the Third World to curtail their sales in those areas have come before the University's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...