By charging a premium for a ride, the company argues, it gets more drivers on the road, and curtails the number of requests from potential passengers, keeping inventory in check.
TEHRAN -- The Iranian capital has long been known for its smog, but pollution in recent days has taken an eye-watering turn for the worse, hampering visibility and causing authorities to shutter schools and curtail the number of cars allowed in the city center.
Last week, Pinterest began curtailing the number of spammers and fake accounts on its system, in an effort to clear its platform off unwanted elements.
The chairmen of both parties confronted network executives at a panel discussion in Philadelphia on Sunday accusing them of shirking their civic duty by drastically curtailing the number of hours of live coverage and argued that by de-emphasing coverage, they were sending the message that the conventions were not newsworthy.
The News has had problems with its presses, curtailing the number of lucrative color ads it could sell, and lost a lawsuit against Goss Graphic Systems, which supplied the presses.
The war in Iraq is now for the most part over, yet gnawing concern persists among the French and Germans, whose governments opposed the war, that American animosity may contribute to curtailing the number of Americans who travel here.
The number of executions in the United States has been rising, spurred on by laws curtailing the number of years felons can wait on death row (see article).
The Texas authorities began sharply curtailing the number of new bay shrimp boat licenses in 1995 to guard against the danger of more and more boats pursuing a finite number of shellfish.
The increasing number of such attacks as a result of failure of Somali government to tackle its internal problem drew the attention of international community who lent a drastic response thereby curtailing the number of such incidents significantly now.
CMMB offers the potential to substitute a politically difficult management approach to curtailing the number of threatened species killed as fisheries bycatch (e.g., direct reduction of bycatch rates) with alternate management methods (e.g., eradication of introduced species on islands).
