curtailing

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Curtailing waste could be particularly important during the upcoming year as California and its state-funded programs head into a period of volatile fiscal uncertainty, driven largely by events in Washington and on Wall Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

Curtailing intellectual property leakage via talent flows is difficult, said Nick Marro, a China analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, because such efforts “can run the risk of turning into ethnically-charged witch hunts”.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2023

Curtailing surveillance harm around the world requires confronting this reality and pushing democracies to uphold a higher standard of behavior.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2022

Curtailing campfire gaffes by forest visitors is one of Starkovich’s prime objectives.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Patents as a Means of Curtailing Monopolies.—While a patent may sometimes sustain a powerful monopoly it may also afford the best means of breaking one up.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates