Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, the state must also labor under an astonishingly low constitutional debt limit of $250,000-tantamount to no borrowing power in its own name...
...boys, the corporations. In the state legislature. Democrats and Republicans began talking about "the need for compromise.'' But as the weeks went by, 1) the Republicans tried to get a 1% increase in sales taxes, and the Democrats balked; 2) the Democrats tried to hike the debt limit to $50 million, and the Republicans balked. Last week, even though the evenly divided house (55 Republicans, 55 Democrats) finally okayed a Soapy plan to mortgage the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund to raise ready cash, the G.O.P.-run state senate turned it down...
...zoning change from Business "A" to Business "B" would raise the height limit from 60 to 100 feet in the block bounded by Mass. Ave., Holyoke, Dunster, and Mt. Auburn...
Over the postwar years a dozen nationalities have streamed into Austria, seeking asylum, filling refugee camps, and-despite large-scale international aid-burdening the Austrian economy. After the influx of nearly 200,000 Hungarians, Austria in self-defense decided to limit the flow. Reading between the lines of the Geneva Refugee Convention. Austria decided to distinguish economic refugees from political refugees. Since "economic"' refugees are those in quest of a better life -not (in the language of the Convention) fleeing persecution-Austria concluded that they could be deported...
...Macy's, it announced that it had kept strictly within the $5,000 retail limit for furniture set by the U.S. Information Agency. It offered to let one of the awestruck Tassmen come in and buy the same thing for $5,000-after first comparing prices at Gimbels, of course...