Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school district, and each teacher has been fined two days' pay for every day on strike. The average loss: over $5,000. In effect, Levittown teachers will be working until the end of January without pay. Some have had to sell their houses, borrow to the limit, and bite into savings...
...James Schlesinger as the answer as Energy Secretary. He just hasn't got the touch for Congress, and I think he has reached his limitation. Schlesinger has given us the cosmetics of an energy plan. Somebody has got to tell Schlesinger, "All right, you've got your 55-mile-an-hour speed limit, you've got your natural gas bill-that's about all you've got, but no production anywhere, no new resources that are coming in." You show me an energy czar who is not going to plan for production...
Gaza is another matter. Egypt administered it from 1948 until 1967, when the Israelis captured it, along with the Sinai. Thus Sadat proposed that the Egyptians and the Israelis agree to a time limit for negotiating self-government for Gaza, and that Israel allow the Egyptians to maintain civil order there until local governments have been established. Sadat thought it possible that some Gaza leaders could be persuaded to join the talks. He also believed that if a Gaza settlement could lead to West Bank negotiations, then perhaps Hussein and some of the West Bankers might be willing to participate...
...There is going to be a second American revolution and a new constitution to limit government," Cosmides predicts. "That was the whole point of the first American revolution...
...will fall to 1.5 million next year. Main reason: mortgage interest rates already average more than 10% nationwide, and may have to climb as high as 11% to stay roughly in line with other rates; but in states containing just under half of the U.S. population, usury laws limit many mortgage lenders to 10% or less. NAHB Economist Michael Sumichrast believes that these lenders, unable to earn a competitive interest rate, will simply stop making house-buying loans...