Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MRDC men are also hard at work devising new techniques for transmitting radio signals in Southeast Asia, where both the dense, humid forests and the magnetic equatorial belt severely limit both range and reliability. Radio engineers have already made tests to determine the type of antenna that will operate most efficiently under these conditions and are scattering very high-frequency radio waves over the forest canopy to distant field receivers...
...going to limit Dr. Baumgartner, she's the expert," DeGuglielmo said. "She's got no limitations in time or range...
...disgruntled seniors not admitted to Social Sciences 139, Erikson's course on the Human Life Cycle. This has provoked me, usually not an outspoken student, to complaint. It is all right to limit a course by class or prerequisites, as long as all qualified people who want to take it are admitted. But it is a huge absurdity that a university of the size and affluence of Harvard must limit a course like Soc Sci 139 because of lack of staff, room, and money. Students can be rejected only arbitrarily, and the injustice of this is not merely institutional...
...what they are trying to do. Each day in a municipal criminal court hundreds of decisions are made to drop some cases without prosecution, to accept pleas of guilty in other cases in return for relatively lenient sentences or probation, and to prosecute a few cases to the limit. While we are all warmed by the glow of Perry Mason's courtroom brilliance, it is, in fact, this informal and invisible negotiating and adjusting process -- and even more invisible police decision on whether to arrest in the first place -- that constitutes the great bulk of the administration of justice...
...accounts of other customers of his firm. If the stock drops, the seller can make a profit by "covering"-that is, buying depressed shares to pay off the loan of his borrowed shares. If the stock rises, he takes a loss when he covers. There is usually no time limit on the loan, and the short seller in theory can hold out indefinitely, waiting for the stock to drop...