The American Bakers Association last month took the radical step of suggesting that American exports be curtailed to keep wheat at home, though the group later backed off.
It concluded that a tax-code overhaul meeting Mr. Romney's goal — a 20 percent cut in all rates without adding to annual budget deficits — would leave wealthy taxpayers with a large tax cut but 95 percent of Americans with a net tax increase once tax breaks for items like mortgage interest are curtailed to keep deficits in check.
The mayor said 300 street fairs over the weekend "would have to be curtailed" to keep streets clear for hurricane-related transportation — ambulances carrying patients to nursing homes or hospitals on higher ground, buses and city-owned trucks moving to where they would be ready for duty once the hurricane had swept by.
Consequently, the abundant renewable energy is curtailed to keep a real-time balance between load and generation in the power system.
In Genzlinger's view, "it wasn't as funny as last year's" finale, and he wished that the acceptance speeches had been curtailed to keep the evening more brisk.
Though we are encouraged by legislators' newfound caution about the potential consequences of the bills, Congress must keep working on ways to curtail the growing business of foreign rogue Web sites trafficking in counterfeit goods and stolen intellectual property.
Isn't that what the First Amendment is about, the right to privacy?" Hirsch hopes the Internet and its effects on community standards will keep him in business and curtail the next wave of federal prosecutions.
11 counterterrorism efforts, said lawmakers would keep coming back with legislation to curtail the dragnets for "metadata," whether through phone records or Internet surveillance.
And so we end where we began, with Brooksley Born on the phone with Larry Summers, and his thirteen pimp-bankers haranguing him to curtail her desire to keep some sense of sanity in the derivatives market.
Although some hummingbirds go into a state resembling hibernation every night, curtailing their metabolism drastically, others keep late hours.
