Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider an unprecedented scheme that would grant a tax increase but rescind it during any month in which spending exceeded a predetermined figure. Rebels on the Appropriations Committee acted to more purpose. Led by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure in committee...
...ecclesiastical senate, the synod is expected to advise the Pope on current problems troubling the church and to extend the legislative accomplishments of the council. But as at the beginning of Vatican II, change-fearing conservatives of the Roman Curia-perhaps acting under papal orders-have worked hard to limit the synod's scope...
...although concerned, did not see fit to interfere in the private affairs of its students. The whole problem of parietals is a distasteful and vulgar tug-of-war which challenges the university in an area where the greatest possible concession has already been made. The university is wrong to limit parietals for reasons made explicit above. The student body is wrong to operate under a control which is permissive ... but just so much...
...have risen nearly 33% since 1964. And now there is even rationing of the disappearing element. Manhattan-based Freeport Sulphur Co., which is the world's biggest producer (4,000,000 tons a year), has increased its output 70% over the past five years, but has had to limit its customers to 90% of their usual orders. Only two weeks ago, second-ranked Texas Gulf Sulphur (nearly 3,000,000 tons) began telling its buyers that they would have to settle for just 75% of their normal quotas during the next three months. It appears that the relatively sudden...
...legislation is the ultimate solution, in the author's opinion. Though he rejects suggestions of a constitutional amendment, he proposes laws carefully drawn to limit access to personal-data computer banks, to end both public and private use of lie detectors and personality tests unless the subject freely consents and to confine surveillance to what can be actually seen and heard with the unaided human eye and ear. Well aware that society sometimes has legitimate reasons for snooping, Westin would allow exceptions under specific conditions...