Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literally steered to targets by television, laser beams and other means. With their pinpoint accuracy, they could stop many of the Soviet tanks that would spearhead a Warsaw Pact invasion. Although the critical guidance mechanisms of these new devices still do not work well when bad weather or smokescreens limit visibility, Collins was certain that "we will solve these and other problems, and the Russians know it." He feared, however, that "if we are going to have a crunch with the Soviets in Europe, it's likely to be in the early 1980s before we have perfected...
...Government generally has been following it." Trying to bridge these two positions, Hyland noted that while "America has had a strategy since 1946 or 1947-essentially containment -its current relevance is questionable." He said the U.S. had based its strategy on the notion that if it could limit the Soviet Union's imperial push for a period of years, that imperial impulse would die. "Unfortunately, this has not happened," he added. "We now need a strategy with military, political and economic facets for providing penalties and rewards for Soviet behavior...
Although the Senate proposal, if passed, would be an improvement over the present system because it would limit, at least to some degree, the level of prices, and because it would also virtually eliminate differences in interstate and intrastate rates. However, the words spoken five months ago by President Carter have an even more ominous ring now,"... there is potential war profiteering in the impending energy crisis. This could develop with the passing months as the biggest ripoff in history." Perhaps when considering this issue it would be wise to keep the independence cry of modern-day Texans in mind...
...reason for all these cries of alarm is Proposition 13, a measure that would limit California property taxes to 1% of the market value of all real estate, about one-third of current average rates. If approved by the voters on June 6-a strong possibility-the proposition would cost California officialdom about $7 billion in annual tax revenues at the present level. It would also make it harder to raise other revenues because it would require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to impose new taxes...
Artist Otto B. Rigan notes in his book New Glass (Ballantine; $7.95): "The pioneering, limit-shattering art of the new glass springs up at a time when the American middle class has more leisure, is better educated and more diversified in interests than ever before, and when the search for expansive ideals and lifestyles is at an all-time high...