Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty. The program involved the distribution of birth control information, and its officials had to ask Sister Jacqueline if she was free to decide on matters involving contraception. "That question stuck with me," she said. "Under the vow of obedience, I had given someone else the authority to limit or veto my decisions. I came to realize that I could not live as a responsible and productive human being for the rest of my life under...
Unafraid of sounding political, administrators like Murphy even point out that Reagan's ideas about economizing are fallacious. They argue that cutting the budget of the universities and state colleges would force them to limit enrollment and send the overflow to the state's community and junior colleges. Since these institutions get about three-fourths of their funds from the local communities, it would in the end be the local home owners--to whom Reagan has promised tax relief--who would be paying for added junior college costs...
Columbia last week joined Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Brown in adopting a pass-fail system to alleviate grade pressure. At the same time, Princeton radically expanded its present plan and now will not limit the number of courses taken by a student for ungraded credit...
...asks Congress to raise the $330 billion ceiling on the national debt. Because Johnson was reluctant to do so just before the November election, Government debt was estimated to be a bare $100 million short of the legal maximum as of last week. Congress will certainly raise the limit-if it does not, its members will not be paid-but it will also seize the chance to take some sharp swipes at the President...
...international field one can cold-bloodedly limit warfare and come to understandings about the kinds of violence that will be resisted or punished and the activities that will be considered non-aggressive, or domestic, or within the other side's sphere of influence. Maybe the same approach is necessary in dealing with crime itself. And if we cannot acknowledge it at the legislative level, it may have to be accomplished in an unauthorized or unacknowledged way by the people whose business requires it of them...