Word: curtailment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forum funded and staffed the activities of the ad hoc committee, and Giral added that the budget cuts would severely curtail the work of the intra-departmental panel, which sponsored Saturday's meeting...
...winter of 1972. Nor is there much likelihood of further lunar exploration by either Americans or Soviets any time soon. Yet the moon has suddenly become the object of a heated debate on earth. The issue: Should President Carter sign an international agreement called the moon treaty that could curtail American rights in space...
Gasoline prices have more than doubled since 1973 and Americans have yet to cut down on their driving. One poll of business executives showed that if gasoline reached $2 a gallon, they still would not curtail their driving. Economists predict that even if gasoline prices increase 300 per cent between 1980 and 2000, per capita auto ownership will go up 43 per cent and automobile miles travelled will increase 35 per cent...
...decision striking down a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, Douglas stated that whether or not one uses contraceptives is a private matter and that a right to privacy is implicit in the Constitution. No friend of the IRS, he consistently used the Bill of Rights to curtail the reach of the taxman by protecting private financial records from Government scrutiny...