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TSMC was one of the first big chipmakers to restore investment plans that had been curtailed by the downturn, and is expanding its R&D team.

It certainly curtailed any advances Sister Manhood might have been making in the direction of ecstasy.

Had sanctions been properly applied, future excessive borrowing by other countries might have been curtailed.

It is not such a surprise that this behavior was not easily curtailed when plagiarism extends into the upper echelons of Chinese academia.

Now much of this expansion looks likely to be curtailed. Even the replacement of reactors may be in question.

It was almost canceled at the last moment and was eventually curtailed from five to three days with many panels cut or abbreviated.

The utilities contend that this reduced capacity will result in curtailed service and higher prices some years down the road.

If its combustion is not curtailed, it could kill millions of times more people than nuclear power plants have done so far.

Chinese traders also said the talk of the disease had curtailed soy meal purchasing by livestock feed mills.

As Las Vegas Sands struggled to raise capital, construction was curtailed and the number of workers crossing the border began to fall.

With what was already a truncated pre-season curtailed by the injury, it is clear there is catching up to do.

Bacterial activity is thus curtailed and the partially decomposed plant material remains in a state of arrested decay.

Due to worldly engagements the ability to have the benefit of this warmth had been curtailed to certain extent in many people.

The conversations left me with great memories but sharply curtailed my career as his driver.

Only a few years ago it appeared that the government's steps into the economy would be curtailed by experience.

And although a few loopholes in the current salary-cap system would remain, they would be sharply curtailed.

However, we still hope that you can produce our parts and components in Shanghai, which freight and delivery date can be severely curtailed.

Companies slashed salaries and curtailed benefits, all while asking shell-shocked veterans to pick up the slack for downsized colleagues.

Decisions that used to take years will, in theory, take just months or even weeks, with public involvement drastically curtailed.

There's also an emerging consensus on the need for banks to hold more capital and for their appetite for risk to be curtailed.

That meant when someone had a heart attack they had to live with damage and their quality of life was often severely curtailed.

Flags are flying at half mast across the country and public entertainment curtailed as a mark of respect, one week after the quake hit.

Republicans and even some Democrats say the administration's ambitious spending plans will have to be curtailed.

Your rights would have been strictly controlled and curtailed, so that you had little freedom unless you conformed to the new World Order.

After the splendours of the Tang dynasty, however, trade along the Silk Road was severely curtailed, and Dunhuang was left in isolation.

Even though a good ISM increases the chances that QE2 might be curtailed, investors cared more about economic strength.

So I think some of the reasons that people were willing to pay a high price for risky securities have been curtailed.

Kenya has vowed to continue fighting until it has curtailed the activities of the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

Volatile price hikes will be inevitable and demand growth will have to be curtailed.

How about former CIA Director R. James Woolsey: ". . . the use of this highly flawed instrument should be radically curtailed. "

The American and French revolutions and the Napoleonic Wars temporarily curtailed the European demand for Chesapeake tobacco.

Everyone has known that eventually stimulus has to be curtailed and deficits brought back to sustainable levels.

His chance for a run of games was cruelly curtailed when injured in the same game as Petr Cech incurred his infamous head injury.

Then, speculative behavior shall be curtailed as much as possible, reducing the channel for profit making through arbitrage.

Yet, apart from the brief months of the "emergency" in 1975, India has never curtailed its people's right to choose their rulers.

Cheap government-guaranteed financing most likely helped institutions take trading risks they might otherwise have curtailed.

Hedge funds today are borrowing less than $1 dollar for every dollar of assets, in part because banks have curtailed lending.

In Britain the war on terror has not only curtailed our civil liberties but poisoned our racial discourse.

One compound also curtailed male sexual behavior and both substances contributed to the growth of breast and prostate cancer cell cultures.

Fear of radicals led to Red scares that seriously curtailed First Amendment rights after both the First and Second World Wars.

If your partner's sleep is being interrupted or curtailed, figure out ways to help if you can.

The Permian was curtailed by massive volcanism. But what exactly happened towards the end of the Triassic has been much debated.

Even the coastal trades were curtailed by a lack of vessels, by blockades, and by wartime freight rates.

Justice Souter, appointed by President George Bush in 1990, has also steadily supported this curtailed right to abortion.

Yeast cells of the invention often grow well when cultivated, despite their curtailed glycerol production.

Political parties are banned, critics are systematically arrested and beaten up by police and freedom of expression is severely curtailed.

Some banks abandoned or curtailed gift-matching programs, where companies agree to duplicate their employees' donations.

The more demands there are on your time or the more your freedom is curtailed, the more pressure you're likely to feel.

Curtailed are those that have kept the navel of your planet in knots.

China protects, according to law, those rights of the prisoners that have not been taken away or curtailed.

The authorities have blamed changing weather patterns that have curtailed the rainy season.

Caviar farming in Russia has now been largely curtailed by a ban designed to protect the Caspian Sea's wild sturgeon stocks.

Conspiracy theories thrive in relatively closed societies, where free access to news is limited and freedom of enquiry curtailed.

With the capturing of this [sea base] all their supply activities will be completely curtailed.

Production is being curtailed more rapidly than in previous downturns, '' Citigroup said. ``Supply cuts will stabilize prices.

Beijing cut off ministerial-level talks on issues like joint energy development, and curtailed visits to Japan by Chinese tourists.

The flexibility of local governments to grant preferential treatment to foreign real estate investors is curtailed.

If he lets Congress get its way, his negotiating power with the banks will be curtailed.

Severe flooding earlier in the year has curtailed production at a raft of Queensland coal mines.

During that period South Korea was ruled by a military dictatorship, and freedom of speech curtailed.

Following the Sichuan earthquake, the torch relay route was curtailed in each city and special mourning sessions were added.

Should lawmakers fail to renew them, US growth next year would be curtailed.

This means that monetary and credit policies will ease, and weaker currencies will be welcomed in Asia; interventions will be curtailed.

But in recent years, the book that made stars of the McGuire twins has curtailed its annual list.

At the turn of the 19th century, many business people complained about the adoption of antitrust laws that curtailed reckless practices.

His freedom of action is also curtailed by a range of unelected bodies mostly controlled by hardline clerics.

Since January 2009, Jobs' two medical leaves have curtailed his role for a total of around thirteen months.

Under a military regime, civil liberty may be severely curtailed.

Ethanol use could be curtailed, rather than being subsidized and enforced.

The cap on quotas implies bank lending growth will be curtailed, but China is simultaneously fostering a corporate bond market.

Living inside a logging concession, their access to the forest behind their farms is already curtailed.

Thus, America's current power will be greatly curtailed by the time today's toddler is entering college.

That kind of flipping stopped several years ago as home sales stalled amid a surge in foreclosures and curtailed lending.

The movement of medical supplies and ambulances to the affected areas is seriously curtailed.

The trade surpluses will be significantly curtailed and the trade deficit is likely to increase.

Budget cuts have drastically curtailed training programs.

US Defense Secretary Warns of Massive Bloodshed in Iraq if US Military Operations Curtailed.

They can no longer rely on this one major market given that America's ability to sustain consumer spending is severely curtailed.

America has warned Britain that intelligence-sharing will be curtailed if its secrets are divulged in court.

When Europe curtailed Chinese imports of cotton bed linen in 2005, Egypt and Bangladesh found lucrative sales opportunities.

Looking back, the curtailed auction was encouraging and disturbing.

Immigration, it will be argued, has unbalanced "our" people. It is already being curtailed in all the leading Western powers.

The lecture was curtailed by the fire alarm going off.

The majority that want the practice of Islam curtailed invoke scholarly support.

Some trust companies have already curtailed their real estate lending.

But on Thursday, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said those "valley fills" will be curtailed.

By shifting the lens from maximum wide angle to maximum telephoto, lumen output on the projector is curtailed by 32%.

If import supplies of oil are suddenly curtailed, our national purchasing power will be lower.

The attendant financial crisis also means many drivers' ability to pay fuel bills with their credit cards has been curtailed.

Loss of load cost, energy not severed, net loss and loss of load duration, are considered when deciding which load should be curtailed.

We're guessing that Apple's field-testing program has been severely curtailed since that happened.

Illness has curtailed her sporting activities.

As a result, the CDO market is closed, and companies' access to credit - especially for leveraged buyout debt - has been severely curtailed.

By the 1980s, however, an era of deregulation had curtailed Washington's hand in business.

But credit lines to [speculators] are being curtailed.

After a dose of bleomycin, the peptide also curtailed lung fibrosis in the animals.

they have lost jobs, struggled to find even low-wage employment and seen access to education curtailed.

In the absence of Ronaldo, Rooney has been prolific, scoring 26 goals in the Premier League before injury curtailed his run.

"What is your address? " inquired a young lady behind the counter, taking up the curtailed conversation.

True, the deep freeze in the credit markets has sharply curtailed deals north of $1 billion or so.

The Permian was curtailed by massive volcanism.

Although it's still unclear what kind of plateau we will see, certainly we could see impeded or seriously curtailed growth.

Some 24 airports have been shut and important hubs such as Shanghai, which is also under snow, have had their services severely curtailed.

Real estate investment has been curtailed because of government fears of a bubble.

In Europe, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 fell 0. 9 per cent, with turnover severely curtailed by a market holiday in the UK.

A classified passage sets out how air strikes will be curtailed.

Beijing cut off ministerial-level talks on issues such as joint energy development, and curtailed visits to Japan by Chinese tourists.

The applicability of conditionals has been curtailed for version 2. 0 (and presumably for future versions, should there be any).

Not only is dirt, crime and poverty removed, but social deviance is curtailed.

Overall, every sector has seen its forecasts curtailed, according to S&P.

We are curtailed of our expenses.

Judges have curtailed pumping in order to protect the delta smelt, a small, endangered fish.

Central Banks feared counterparty risk for the first time in 20 years and substantially curtailed gold lending and sales.

Any or all of which may be reduced or curtailed.

So that democratic freedom has been curtailed.

The initial plan of building 4, 000units for the athletes has been curtailed to 2, 800 apartment-development.

Other web ventures have also been curtailed: social networking site Facebook is banned, for example.

Meanwhile, energy-poor developing countries like India are finding their growth assumptions severely curtailed.

But this has not fully curtailed China's real-estate bubble: Housing starts rose about 40 percent last year.

In a study published last year, the team showed that an MDA there sharply curtailed the life span of mosquitoes that fed on treated people.

The annual hunt was curtailed last year because of clashes between whalers and conservationists.

Selection and Analysis for Scheme Parameters of Time Curtailed Reliability Qualification Test

Selection and Analysis of Test Scheme Parameters for Time Curtailed Reliability Qualification Test

Using Curtailed Theorem method to get the output resistance of common-collector amplification circuit

UK retail sales in February fell more than forecast as consumers curtailed spending,

active participation is severely curtailed

The interruption curtailed His speech