Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months the war has been developing at a gradual pace. Seeking to limit it, the U.S. sent-and is still sending-American men and materiel into Viet Nam on a piecemeal basis, always hoping that the next unit would be the last one necessary. Tight restrictions on U.S. or South Vietnamese bombing raids against Hanoi's industrial complex have been maintained. At all times, President Johnson has held himself open to what he described last April in his Johns Hopkins University speech as "unconditional discussions" leading toward peace...
Signs of Flexibility. The Continentals are not united in opposition, but many of their leaders want to upgrade their own currencies and downgrade the dollar and the pound. One idea for accomplishing this is to limit the amount of dollars and pounds that foreign nations could hold in their reserves. To increase the supply of reserves, the Continentals, especially France, would like to create a composite international money, which would be backed by contributions from the industrial nations. The Continentals would have this money administered not by the IMF but the Group of Ten, which they dominate...
...individual's interests seem more than adequately bulwarked by the Bill of Rights-basically the Constitution's first eight amendments-which was specifically designed to limit police power and to protect the citizen from government oppression. In essence, the Bill of Rights commands government to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The state cannot force a defendant to testify against himself; the courts must exclude "confessions" that have been obtained by coercion, even if it means freeing the guilty. As Felix Frankfurter summarized the significance of such provisions: "The history of liberty has largely been...
...beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
...just because a fellow goes vroom-vroom, slides around the streets, breaks the speed limit and scares people, doesn't mean that he is a racing driver. Racing isn't all noise and speed and excitement. It is tedious little chores: counting revs, gauging distances, plotting trajectories. It is absolute concentration-the kind it takes to flick through a corner in driving rain at the limit of tire adhesion, the point at which one more mile-per-hour will send the car hurtling off the road. It is good driving at its best...