Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, the central Government has become so huge that its power seems virtually without limit. But in The Age of Discontinuity, Peter Drucker suggests that to a future historian "impotence, not omnipotence, may appear to be the remarkable feature of Government in the closing decades of the 20th century." While the Federal Government collects taxes with ruthless efficiency, it can no longer move the mails with dispatch; it spends vast sums on welfare, but Sociologist Daniel Moynihan says that it is "highly unreliable" as an instrument for ameliorating the lot of urban Negroes. The multitude of social programs through which...
...pared this down to essentials-like a new stadium, storm sewers, a rapid-transit system and parks-other men prepared bills for the state legislature to enable the thrust to move forward. Of 19 proposed bills, 18 passed. Most important were measures to double King County's debt limit and to enable the county to borrow on behalf of its 30 cities. They permitted the county to finance its capital improvements with long-term bonds, which the area's 1,000,000 residents would pay off through modest increases in real estate taxes. All minorities. Something else came...
...equipment to dig fill out of the sea and, as a homestead, set up a prefabricated hut on his man-made island. When the U.S. contested his legal claim, Ray then argued that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country. Dubbing his new nation the "Grand Capri Republic," he made plans to "occupy and defend the area against all comers...
...northwest at a rate of two inches per year. In some areas, however, friction between the sliding masses of rock caused the movement to slow and even to stop. "When the fault sticks," Hofmann says, "the movement is transferred to smaller, adjacent faults that can stand only a limited amount of movement. When these smaller faults reach their limit, the forces increase until the main fault breaks loose again. This sudden breaking loose is the earthquake...
...relieving air congestion in the Chicago-New York-Washington "Golden Triangle," the restrictions affect operations at five airports -New York's John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark, Washington's National and Chicago's O'Hare. Eastern objects to an FAA proposal that would rigidly limit takeoffs and landings by all commercial and private planes to 60 an hour at Newark and La Guardia. That would restrict its ability to add extra sections to its shuttle flights. The result, says Eastern, would be that "the air shuttle could not live up to its seat guarantee." Confronted...