Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much the same attempt to limit debate was made in 1953, but it accomplished nothing. Theoretically the U.S. Senate considers its rules virtually sacrosanct. It describes itself as a "continuing body"-with continuing rules. Its purists hold that the filibuster is not so much a deceitful parliamentary device as a bulwark of the high principle of "unlimited debate...
Motorists were equally undeterred when harassed filling station operators instituted an informal limit of ten liters (about 2% gallons) per customer, simply made the rounds of three or four stations to get a full tank. In Paris every dawn found at least 40 or 50 cars lined up before every gas pump, and by every noon the pumps were...
...result of this move, Columbia's undergraduate body will grow from 2436 students this year to a limit...
Since there are now only two members of the Class of '59 on the news board, there is an excellent opportunity for any sophomores who want to try out in this competition. But since there is no limit on the number of those elected, capable freshmen have an equal chance of becoming editors as upperclassmen...
Keenly aware of the suspicion with which national states regard any proposal to limit their sovereignty-as Deputy Foreign Minister of Sweden he had plenty of practice in thinking in purely nationalistic terms-Hammarskjold moves cautiously, never asks more power than he needs or the situations require. But he refuses to regard himself as a mere agent of a legislature. Given a mission, e.g., to arrange a cease-fire in Egypt. Hammarskjold is guided not by the letter of his instructions but by his understanding of what the majority of the United Nations wants...