Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of such blinders on the economy, Leffingwell suggested that government try "self-control-the most difficult of all controls for government to exercise." Federal, state and local governments should "rigidly curtail their own demands . . . for purposes not related to defense...
Accelerating the rise in productive capacity is even more important today than the problem of stopping inflation, Slichter feels. As a result he is strongly dedicated to any mobilization steps which will encourage investment and technological research. One of his strongest convictions, therefore, is that the draft should not curtail the training of young scientists...
...jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week's trading began, television stocks again dropped as much as 4¼ points on fears that war might curtail production of TV sets...
When confronted with economic legislation, the Court has wisely been reluctant to find fault if the legislators have acted reasonably. But within the past decade the Justices have indicated that they will employ a more demanding test of constitutionality when considering laws which curtail freedom of expression...
Without the grant, the Seminar would have had either to shut up shop this summer or to curtail its program very considerably...