Word: cutback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extra $4 billion a year in fuel costs and will see their composite rate of growth in production shrink from 4% to 3.25%. The Japanese, who draw 37.4% of their oil from Saudi Arabia, were relieved. They believe their recovering economy can absorb the increase without suffering any serious cutback...
...foreign affairs a major issue, Carter charges that it is wrong for the U.S. to be the world's leading arms salesman. He finds it "repugnant" that Washington backs authoritarian regimes like South Korea and has suggested that either Seoul start reforming or the U.S. should consider a cutback in aid or in U.S. security forces there. Carter also feels that the U.S. has a moral obligation to do significantly more than it has to help underdeveloped countries and to participate in what could be very costly international commodity agreements to bolster the economies of such countries...
...Communists have already indicated that they will seek legislation to crack down on tax evaders. They also want better pay for police, more schools and hospitals and a cutback on the sottogoverno, the maze of inefficient governmental agencies. Andreotti can accept most of the Communist proposals, although Zaccagnini warned Christian Democratic leaders last week "to avoid the danger that the parliamentary vote will constitute in fact that majority which we excluded on a political plane." Bluntly, that meant they had to watch against the Communists grabbing command of the lawmaking process and slipping into the government via the parliamentary back...
...President had proposed military outlays of $101.1 billion, and vowed to veto any reductions. Though liberal Democrats wanted to cut as much as $7 billion, the House Budget Committee reduced Ford's target by only $500 million. The Senate Budget Committee proposed an even more meaningless $300 million cutback...
...large degree borne out Bennett's perception of the economy. Inflation has forced the University to trim back many operations and to raise more money from outside sources of income. In energy and fuel expenditures, for example, costs rose by more than $3 million despite a 22 per cent cutback in energy consumption during the past fiscal year. Undergraduates have felt inflation in real terms most heavily in the past three years alone; the cost of attending Harvard/Radcliffe has risen from about $5025 to more than...