Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Limit. That is certain to take considerable time, though there are some officials in Washington who are confident that the talks will not turn into another Panmunjom. They argue that Lyndon Johnson would not have proposed the talks, and renounced a second term, until he was fairly certain that they would yield some results. They also maintain that Moscow might well have encouraged that view, and note that Xuan Thuy is well known as a member of Hanoi's pro-Soviet faction. In any case, Harriman emphasized when asked whether the U.S. had put a time limit...
...agreed upon, in principle, last fall in Rio de Janeiro by these same nations. The Stockholm Conference was and still is necessary to formalize the scheme by specifying the circumstances under which a nation may use its SDR's. It must also fix some sort of limit, probably adjusted to a nation's volume of trade and size of GNP, to which the nation may draw, and decide the manner in which the proposal must be ratified by IMF members...
...when it becomes operative, will be rather restricted. There will probably be some board, consisting of both permanent and elected members, to regulate the extension of SDR's as well as explicit regulations limiting the circumstances under which they may be extended. But the institution, once started, will steadily expand in both the scope and depth of its power; the circumstances will not have to be quite so special, and the limit on drawing will be raised...
...closer to dinner time. You are 14 runs behind and some guy on the other team fouls off eight or nine pitches. You want to shout, Listen, you've had your chance to get a hit, a fair chance, now you're out. But the rules place no limit on fouls, so you can only be facetious and say, Ninety-four more, or something equally hopeless. As of two weeks ago, the rules of the game have changed. When a university administrator hits too many fouls, your side gets on base automatically...
State of Emergency. The Progressive Laborites, however, claim that progress has not come fast enough. They charge that the whites get the best jobs in government and that there is still de facto social segregation, want to limit the number of white immigrant workers from Britain. "It is going to really get hot this summer," Parliamentary Candidate Austin Thomas warned a rally in Hamilton two weeks ago, "and it is going to be P.L.P. heat." A few hours later, a band of teen-age Negro hoodlums began throwing bottles and rocks at some police on Front Street. When more police...