Word: limitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was not much that the seven could agree on to contain the damage. For the moment, at least, OPEC has the industrial world over a barrel. The summiteers decided to hold imports from the oil cartel at about their present levels, in order to limit the flow of cash from their countries and, just possibly, dissuade the OPEC leaders from piling on yet more price boosts when they meet again, in December at the latest. That done?and very little it was?the seven summiteers disbanded. Carter, after a weekend visit to the U.S. military front lines in South...
...dormitories, the University is shutting off hot water at night, putting "restricters" on showers to limit the amount of water used, and watching water temperatures more closely, Norman Goodwin Jr., manager of utilities, said yesterday. said in an interview in The Black Panther...
...truckers also wanted to abolish the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, arguing that it costs them money by slowing their trips. But the Government refused even to consider that move. The accident rate would rise again, and more fuel would be burned at higher speeds. Finally, the independents demanded that states establish uniform truck weights across the country. Most states allow an 80,000-lb. load and 60-ft. truck length. But nine states, most bordering the Mississippi River (called the Iron Curtain by truckers), impose lower weight limits. Trucks going across the continent have to keep their loads down...
...October 1952, to simulate actual combat conditions, the Pentagon was asking to raise the permissible level of ionizing radiation that soldiers could receive from the AEC limit of 3.9 roentgens over 13 weeks to 3 roentgens of "prompt whole-body nuclear radiation"-that is, the exposure during the explosion-"plus an additional 3 roentgens in post-detonation maneuvering." Again the AEC agreed...
...developing "clean" atomic bombs, which produced very little fallout. But citing the military's desire for some degree of off-site radiation for troop-training purposes, the AEC agreed not to limit such fallout...