Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Topping the Others. There seemed to be no end to it, no ceiling on his energy, no limit to his endurance, no issue or individual to whom he would not offer a hayseed's aphorism or a statesman's advice. Ever since he took office five months ago, amid the numbing shock waves of John Kennedy's assassination, he has plunged into the presidency with a headlong velocity. No man in the White House has ever moved faster. Few have managed to brand their personality on the presidency so quickly and so indelibly. Corny as johnnycake, folksy...
...Employers later became liable for injuries, but trainmen had a hard time hiring good lawyers to protect their rights. In 1930 the brotherhood opened a legal-aid department - a pioneering plan offering injured trainmen the services of 16 highly skilled lawyers. Stationed around the U.S., these lawyers agreed to limit their fees to 25% of the amount recovered, and they returned part of their fees to the brotherhood...
...more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue that the most durable building is a gallows because it "outlives a thousand tenants...
...businessmen, economists and social scientists-all those to whom the deposed João Goulart had often refused to listen. Out of the meetings came the broad outline of his program for Brazil. He intends, say his advisers, to encourage foreign investment, overhaul tax collection and increase revenues, limit inflationary bank credit, set up an independent central bank to control the currency presses. The government's wild spending will be cut and its mammoth bureaucracy trimmed to happier size...
...restrain consumer spending if it rises too fast, strengthening credit restrictions, holding wage rises to productivity gains, curtailing luxury housing, and maintaining liberal import policies to keep local prices down. The ministers even agreed to present their national budgets to each other for examination and discussion, and to limit yearly budget increases to 5%. The words "economic plan" never came up, but with the new program, the first joint economic policy ever voted by the Six, the Common Market clearly took a long step toward a centralized planning system...