Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 30, nobody would be surprised if it were prolonged. In return for the surcharge and some relatively minor revenue measures-which together will yield an estimated $15 billion in the next year-the Administration reluctantly accepted a mandatory $6 billion spending cut by agreeing to a $180.1 billion limit on federal outlays in the new fiscal year...
...biggest clash was at the edge of the walled city of Jerusalem between helmeted police and a procession of mourners on their way to a Moslem cemetery. The police were stoned when they tried to limit the number of Arabs entering the Damascus Gate and responded with a charge. The Israelis also fired their weapons in the air to frighten away Arab demonstrators heading in the direction of the Wailing Wall, where they might have collided with praying Jews...
...appropriate action by the entire Faculty. This would include the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, the Committee on Afro-American Studies, and the Committee on the future of Harvard's overcrowded undernourished Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These committees usually have an unspecified but accepted time limit of perhaps one term or one year in which to report back to Ford and the Faculty...
...some ways, Franklin Ford is very conscious of his power and is wary of its overuse. By nature, he is mot one to force his views upon a reluctant party. When he brings a proposal before the fill Faculty, he prefers to limit his own comments to why discussion of the issue should be raised and of its relevance. He even resents being put on the line by someone's saying, "I would like to hear what the Dean thinks about this proposal." Ford believes any outspokeness distorts votes. "Some people who disagree with a plan will think that...
...both groups have stayed pretty well in sight of Wilson's guidelines, which date from the 1965 sterling crisis; they are now supposed to limit wage and price hikes to an annual 31% increase. Businessmen, however, are constantly tempted to raise consumer prices by an extra dollop, using as their understandable excuse the fact that devaluation brought on an automatic increase in the cost of imported raw materials. On their side, unions are girding for a series of major contract negotiations this summer and autumn with wage-rise demands totaling more than a billion dollars. Among the demands...