Word: limitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...submariners. The crew will live in nine-man rooms instead of mass dormitories, each room with a table and lounge. At every bunk will be a stereo headset for listening to music. These amenities are important. Explains Rear Admiral Charles Larson, the Trident program coordinator: "The physical limit on how long you can stay out on a nuclear submarine is determined by the food and other consumables on board -and the psychological limit of the crew. There's a lot of habitability that's built into a Trident." Not to mention an enormous lethal punch, which is intended...
SAWHILL: We do not have the luxury of shifting to alternative energy sources immediately, so we have to reduce imports. Mandatory standards must be set for the heating and cooling of commercial buildings; we ought to regulate outdoor advertising; and we should enforce the 55 m.p.h. speed limit much more aggressively...
...threatened many manufacturing industries. In all, the union and the industry estimate that the contract will give 270,000 drivers and warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council on Wage and Price Stability, by tortuously twisting the guideline rules, pronounced the agreement acceptable. Chief Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn admitted that the Administration's official position verges on fantasy. Said he: "You can say with honesty that there has been bending...
Except for relatively technical issues such as these, the outlines of SALT II have been in place for nearly two years. The centerpiece is a treaty, running through 1985, that would limit the American and Soviet strategic arsenals to a maximum of 2,250 strategic launchers, a category that includes intercontinental ballistic missiles (iCBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles and long-range bombers. Under this overall ceiling, some classes of weapons would be subject to further restrictions. Perhaps the most important would limit both countries to 1,320 strategic launchers carrying several warheads and known as MIRVS (multiple, independently targeted...
...wage-price guidelines were beset by a tide of woe last week. While the nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots, attendants and other crew...