Word: delimit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal prudence, has in fact run up the largest federal deficit of any President since F.D.R., who was fighting both a depression and a world war. Although the fault is not entirely Nixon's, he heads into his second term confined by a fiscal squeeze that will sharply delimit domestic policy. So far he has issued no major requests for new initiatives from his departments to improve on his disappointing first-term domestic record. Indeed, only one instruction has gone out: prepare to tighten your belts...
...recognized a patient's right to avoid public embarrassment. It emphasized that judges should limit the scope of the inquiry in the light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself has brought before the court." In such cases, it suggested, patients should attempt to "delimit" the nature of their mental distress in advance, so that courts can bar questions that delve unnecessarily into "specific intimate factual circumstances." On that basis, Lifschutz decided to talk...
...conference passed this proposal over that of the IS women's caucus, which called the conference "male chauvinist from top to bottom" and argued that it was SMC's responsibility to clearly delimit the connection between the war and the oppression of women...