Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...views before a decision is made by the higher body, and to carry it out when it is finally arrived at. We feel that this feedback system of policy making, with leadership responsible to membership, and membership bound by leadership, is a most democratic one. Despite government attempts to limit the functioning of this structure, such as making it illegal to send Party documents through the mails, Democratic centralism is the goal of all sections of the organization, and works fairly well in practice...
...ENVIRONMENT. Congress passed an unprecedented highway beautification bill that provides for withholding some federal road funds from states that tolerate unsightly billboards and unconcealed junkyards. The 89th also 1) authorized $240 million for new landscaping along certain federal highways, 2) set up federal regulations that by 1968 will limit atmospheric pollution from automotive exhaust pipes, and 3) approved a water-pollution control law that could lead to courtroom prosecution of industries or individuals responsible for fouling U.S. waters...
...prescribed a jejuno-colostomy (short-circuiting most of the small bowel), an operation devised in 1912 for patients suffering from incurable metabolic defects. Because the body absorbs most of its fats through the wall of the lower small bowel, by drastically shortening that absorbing wall the surgeon hoped to limit his patient's assimilation of fat calories...
Most of the equipment actually exceeded expectations. Cousteau's prototype breathing apparatus, which recycles a helium-based artificial atmosphere supplied from the sphere, en abled divers to work outside the cap sule without any time limit. Inside, a miniaturized mass spectrograph, especially adapted for the experiment, monitored composition of the atmosphere, transmitting the results both to the oceanauts and to the surface so that any dangerous variations would be immediately detected...
...With respect to open parties, proctors set a limit beforehand to the number of guests and require members of the proctorial unit to assume responsibility for any non-Harvard guests...