Word: curtailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurance companies' plan to curtail young drivers because they have too many accidents may sound asfounding, but it gropes toward the right principle. Instead of punishing any one group, be it an age unit or a city, an equitable insurance plan should single out the reckless drivers wherever they are, and pin the insurance costs on them...
Despite their declining membership and the difficulties involved, the Y.P.'s were fairly active in the spring of 1951; only last fall did the club really have to curtail its activities...
...hypocrisy of self-righteousness" for present-day Democrats to claim themselves as true liberals. "Every move they make to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution, every move they make to centralize political power, every move they make to curtail and suppress individual liberty is reaction in its most extreme form . . . The framers of the Constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages . . . Their concept held to the primacy of the individual's interest; that of our present leadership to the predominance of the state...
...petition said that enactment of any of the anti-subversive bills would "curtail academic freedom," It continued: "Its provisions regulating holding of meetings and assembled would force Universities such as ours to abandon the time-honored practice of having speakers of all political persuasions...
...following the Communist Party line. This week the I.U.M.M.S.W. pulled 58,000 workers off the job in more than 50 mines, mills and other plants in 25 states, and slowed U.S. production of defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits that would add another 10? an hour. Last offer of the Kennecott Copper Corp...