Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limited Time. Once Britain abolishes the death penalty, only two countries in Western Europe-France and Spain-will still retain capital punishment. None of the other abolition countries have faced a sharp rise in the incidence of murder, which suggests to the abolitionists that the death penalty never acted as a notable deterrent. Even so, Tory Henry Brooke urged that the bill, if it became an act, should be brought before both Houses of Parliament again in five years' time, adding, "I believe that bold experiment subject to a time limit is the right course to take." When...
...organized a "Blue Ribbon Committee" of 500 society matrons and housewives to bring in 1,000 people who would contribute $1,000 each (it took them five months, but they made it). "Women work very hard," says Buff, "when you give them a specific goal and a time limit." She has also been successful with a mass pitch, distributing shopping bags called "Buck Bags" to raise $500,000 in contributions, to be matched by another $500,000 by an anonymous donor...
...flood of buy orders twice forced the Stock Exchange to delay Comsat's opening, and trading once had to be suspended for two hours. The Federal Communications Commission ordered an "informal" inquiry to make sure that in the speculative rush foreign ownership had not exceeded its 20% legal limit. The stock hit a record high of 66¼ after Comsat announced plans to start the first commercial service between North America and Europe next May with its "Early Bird" satellite. Wall Streeters were still flabbergasted. "It would have been unpatriotic to expect it to go down," said Merrill Lynch
...McCrea universe, the galaxies are the breeding place of matter. Deep in their hearts new atoms appear, gathering together to form new stars or adding to the mass of old ones. Eventually the galaxy reaches a limit, breaks up and expels into space a clot of matter that forms the embryo of a young, growing galaxy. In accordance with some principle that McCrea does not claim to understand, new galaxies are born at the proper rate to fill the vacant spaces left by the general expansion of the universe...
Deep in space, many galaxies have recently been found that are apparently exploding. These "quasars" (quasi-stellar objects), give off more energy than any other bodies in the universe. If McCrea is right, they have created their limit of new matter and are in the throes of stupendous parturition...