Instead of starting to curtail the emissions by 2007, as was widely expected, the proposal would give utilities until 2018 to make significant cuts.
Mr. Smith wanted the bishop to be an intermediary in his surrender, because of his ties to a New York Police Department program, Brooklyn Clergy/N.Y.P.D. Task Force, started last year to curtail the increasing instances of young black men killing other young black men.
By the middle of last year's second quarter, inventories of unsold chips started piling up and orders started to drop, forcing Taiwan Semi and UMC to slow down expansion plans and curtail capital spending.
If the government started to take responsibility for treating gambling addicts, their interest would be in curtailing the most addictive and harmful gambling products.
These attempts were curtailed however when people living along the Line of Control which divides Indian and Pakistani Kashmir started to hold public protests against their activities.
But that doesn't mean that it is the right place to start in an attempt to curtail violence.
Planning board members had started looking for some way to curtail oversized construction more than a year earlier, after village trustees, deluged with neighbors' complaints, directed them to do so.
