Word: limitated
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Just as streamlining will not improve the performance of a rocking chair, it will not improve the efficiency of an automobile. Performance of a vehicle will not be affected until it reaches at least 50 m.p.h. With a national highway speed limit set at 55 m.p.h., aerodynamically "slippery" cars designed to achieve better fuel economy are meaningless...
...antiradiation gear, including three pairs of coveralls and a full-face respirator, in order to draw a vital sample of contaminated water to help his colleagues figure out what was happening. He absorbed only four rems during his mission; a total of five is the limit set by the plant for a year. "It's not the kind of thing you want to do," he explained later, "but you have...
...Middletown (pop. 11,000), the streets were unusually empty. Some teenage boys played basketball outside an elementary school. Many residents were following instructions to remain inside their houses and to keep air conditioners turned off to limit the intake of any contaminated air. To prevent looting, Mayor Robert Reid imposed a 9 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The Red Cross was ready for any full-scale evacuation. It was no new thing, in a way; the town had been cleared during several recent floods, dating from the big one of 1972. Across the river, tiny Goldsboro (pop. 600) was virtually...
...well the Democrats' "turtle" strategy against the amendment will work is in doubt. Only shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by Senate Democratic leaders last week prevented passage of a Republican-sponsored amendment as part of the bill increasing the national debt limit to $830 billion from $798 billion. In place of the G.O.P. measure, the Democrats substituted a diluted rider that requires congressional budget committees to draw up a balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. But the amendment does not bind Congress to adopt the committees' recommendations. Complained Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole: "This is a hoax...
...government will have to continue to limit demand for food through rationing, however, if it is to approach targeted levels of growth, Timmer said...