Word: limiteds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wisconsin last month, Governor Anthony Earl signed landmark legislation designed to combat unwanted teen pregnancies and, as he put it, to "limit thousands of personal tragedies that are played out in our state every day." The law, which won unanimous approval in the state legislature, provides funding for sex education in public schools, repeals restrictions on the sale of nonprescription contraceptives and provides $1 million for counseling pregnant adolescents. It also takes the unusual step of making grandparents of babies born to teenagers legally responsible for the babies' financial support. "All of us," said Earl, "young people and parents...
...major cities to recruit maids and other household help for busy urban families. Businessmen can hire workers privately, a practice that conventional Marxists regard as inherently exploitative. Legally, no private entrepreneur is supposed to employ more than 15 hired hands, but local Communist Party officials often ignore that limit...
...tumult caused by this unprecedented measure, whose constitutionality is under challenge, will begin almost immediately. On Jan. 10, budget officials in the White House and Congress will kick the law into force by producing an estimate of the current fiscal year's looming deficit, probably about $200 billion. To limit the shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman to order cuts totaling some $11.7 billion, half from defense and half from civilian spending that has not been specifically exempted. These reductions, known in federalese as sequestrations, will take effect March 1. Says Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete...
With his bold declaration, the young leader had spawned a new idea: that he and other Latin American leaders had a right to limit the sacrifices of their countrymen. And while bankers have been relieved that no other South American country has yet adopted Peru's guideline, several have followed García's lead by stiffening their resolve not to let their debt problems further damage either their national pride or their fragile domestic economies...
...Anchorman and veteran Space Reporter Walter Cronkite proudly announced that he was in the running. To be considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit, and aspirants who reach the final selection process will be screened by a new, less stringent medical standard established by NASA for such civilian projects: free of disease, injury or other condition likely to interfere with the mission or preflight training; eyesight correctible to at least 20/40 in the better...