Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tapped and got no answer from Paul. Later that year, for no given reason, she was released from prison. Months afterward she received a secretly relayed message from Paul. He had been taken to another prison and had no hope of freedom. But then, as he had reached "the limit of human endurance," the incredible happened. Russia's Bulganin and Khrushchev, planning to visit Britain and not wishing to be embarrassed by British labor leaders' demands for the release of a long list of jailed Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others, set free. Paul and Florence...
Soak the Rich. Having already borrowed the legal limit from the Bank of France and hoping to borrow more to offset the government deficit, Mollet had encountered Bank of France Governor Wilfrid Baumgartner, conscientious keeper of the country's precious bullion reserves. Said smooth, silver-haired Baumgartner: "I want collateral-taxes. And quickly." Mollet's answer: a soak-the-rich tax program that hit corporation earnings, dividends and inventories, added four francs per liter...
...Allison of the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: "Unless the rate of [bomb] testing is greatly stepped up, there is little or no danger to the general public. But if every nation gets into testing, the situation could be extremely serious." He favors an international limit on the power of bombs that may be tested...
...million. Erhard aims for "wider ownership of the means of production" by making special provisions for wage earners. The government will give 10% to 20% discounts to Germans earning up to $3,500 a year. To prevent stock control from going to big companies, especially foreign ones, Bonn will limit stock purchases by any buyer (probably to between $2,500 and $7,500) and regulate future stock transfers...
High Living. In Tel Aviv, Israel, a court acquitted Eliahu Migdal of disturbing the peace with a noisy card game on his open balcony late one night, ruled: "There is no lawful limit on the amount of noise a person may make on his own balcony...