Word: curtails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is virtually no alternative to the private auto, and any rationing scheme should take that dependence into account. Millions of Americans will gladly pay top dollar for gasoline, as long as they can still get it. Western Europe has proved that even $1-a-gal. gasoline need not curtail car sales so long as the cars are small and economical enough. The number of cars owned by each 1,000 Italians multiplied from 18 in 1955 to 188 in 1970. In the U.S., once the initial shock of the gasoline shortage is over and Detroit has completed its conversion...
Texaco's decision persuaded Cambridge Electric, Harvard's source of steam heat and electricity, to order all customers to curtail their use of steam and electricity by a similar 28-per-cent margin. And they threatened offenders with severe penalties--including a complete cut-off of energy...
...lack of talent will force Harvard to rely on what Jenkins termed "discipline." Sanders' major stress on the offensive game has been to curtail the number of turnovers. He has also concentrated on man-to-man coverage in defensive drills...
Moreover, the refusal of the Allende government to modify its socializing policies forced some international lending agencies to curtail their programs in Chile...
...entire fetal blood supply with massive transfusions before or shortly after birth. Now prevention is possible in the form of a blood extract called Rh immune globulin. Developed independently by research teams in England and the U.S. nearly a decade ago, the globulin acts as a vaccine to curtail the Rh-negative woman's production of antibodies and greatly reduces the risks to future Rh-positive children...