Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the Institute and professor of Far Eastern Languages, called the bill a mere formality, Senator William D. Fleming of Worcester led the opposition against it. One of the bill's proponents, Senator Hastings Keith of Plymouth explained that the Institute's assets already exceeded the present legal limit of $10 million...
According to Keith the securities owned by the Institute have risen from $8 million to $17 million in value because of the "recent inflation." Speaking in defense of the bill, he warned that the Institute's trustees may seek a charter in Connecticut, where there is no limit to corporate holdings...
After first ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small...
...voters pick a number of candidates equal to the available positions, and the votes are counted in order of preference. By the system of unlimited plurality, which Newman opposes, the voter still has as many choices as the number of positions, but all the choices are of equal value. Limited plurality would limit voters to three equal choices...
Whatever the answers, says the judge advocate on the eve of the court-martial, "they'll know we asked the questions"; and in asking them, and simultaneously asking the audience to do some thinking, Time Limit! contrives a nice, new twist for a thriller. With the help of a good cast and production, it also provides much that is vibrant and tense. If the play has its shortcomings, the chief reason is the old have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too one. Time Limit! tries to be exciting and significant by turns, rather than the one by means...