Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...forces to override the vetoes, and more vetoes are sure to come. Certain to be rejected by the President, if Congress passes them, are two bills that would circumscribe his power. One would limit his ability to commit military forces to combat without congressional approval; the other would curtail his power to impound funds appropriated by Congress...
...idea was to spur local solutions to local problems. Some cities used the money to meet obvious, social needs: hospitals, sanitation facilities, public transportation. Others, like Atlanta, tried to divide the money among homeowners and landlords. A few country hamlets, suspecting some dastardly Washington plot either to curtail their liberties or buy their allegiance, have sent back their checks uncashed. None of these answers was quite right, though, for the residents of St. Louis County, a wealthy suburban area outside St. Louis. The county council has decided to spend most of the federal money on a recreational complex...
...ship and was thus not able to unfold its light-gathering panels. That was bad news indeed. It meant that Skylab was deprived of more than half its electrical power. Even if the astronauts were sent up to Skylab, the serious energy crisis in space would force them to curtail many key experiments, including some of the critical medical tests of bodily functions in conditions of prolonged weightlessness...