Word: limited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most abrasive issues between the islands and Washington is sea law. The trust territory wants to license tuna fishing in its waters and adopt a 200-mile limit. The U.S. argues that tuna are migratory and can be caught without restrictions anywhere. That is good for California tuna men and for the Japanese, who sweep 40,000 tons of tuna annually from Micronesian waters. But the islanders lament that they are losing millions of dollars in licensing fees...
...Swiss francs. The possibility is growing that foreign investors will pull much of their capital out of the U.S.; such a flight would cause the dollar to plummet even further and force the U.S. to intervene in foreign markets on a huge scale. That in turn could work to limit funds available for credit in the U.S., kick interest rates up and hurt capital spending and home building...
...frequency, end of the spectrum. Just as a train whistle's lowered pitch indicates that it is moving away from the listener, so the quasars' light suggests that they are receding from the earth at tremendous speeds-some approaching the universe's ultimate speed limit, the velocity of light. And according to a law formulated by Astronomer Edwin Hubbell in 1929, the greater the red shift of light from a galaxy, or island of stars, the farther away the galaxy is from the earth. Indeed, using the red shift from some quasars as a yardstick indicates that...
...says he tries not to limit himself to anything--and like any other college student he has his dreams. His goal in life is to make a lot of money so that neither he nor his kids have to live the way he did when he was young. "I remember living, until I was four or five, in a two-room house. My Dad's a bricklayer and he built the house we live in now--he and my grandfather. Building that house was a step up--but he had to work so hard. Nobody should have to work that...
...Mitterand, chief of the Socialist Party, wanted to keep the actual number of nationalized companies as low as possible. White collar workers and managers comprise about one-third of the Socialist's Constituency, and Mitterand has to tailor his policies to their support. The Socialists held firm to their limit of no more than 227 nationalizations, and the coalition collapsed...