Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government's emergency fuel bill aid, under which financial help is granted to pay heating bills, was troubled by distribution problems last year. It has been doubled, to $400 million for this winter, and the eligibility limit has been raised to $8,375 from $7,750 for a family of four. Red tape has been snipped: applicants no longer have to present a notice from their fuel dealers saying that service has been cut off for nonpayment. In addition, a hastily conceived new program will send $1.2 billion in cash grants, averaging about $150 each, to 7.3 million...
...majority of the 2,560-member electoral college called the National Conference for Unification. Though Choi (rhymes with jay) was the sole candidate and is nominally able to serve the five years remaining in Park's current term, there were signs that he wanted to limit his tenure in Seoul's presidential Blue House and lead the country's transformation to a genuine democracy. In an acceptance statement to the electors in the capitol's cavernous municipal gymnasium, he said: "I will observe the constitution, safeguard the nation, and strive for increased freedom...
...Korea needs most, he has told friends, "is not a hero but a good many good managers." He is already on record with a series of pledges: to restrict his term in office (to perhaps two years at most), to oversee the preparation of a new constitution (which might limit the President to one six-year term), and to call a new election (probably by 1982) in which all of the country's 17 million voters would choose a chief executive. Trying to build a consensus for such reforms, Choi has met with more than 400 leaders...
LSAC decided to limit the number of third-year "hardship" transfers because "We don't want to give the message that Law Schoob is a two-year experience with a third year elsewhere," Upton said, adding, "Law school is a three-year experience...
Several Law School students said yesterday they believe the limit is very arbitrary. "A lot of people want to go for valid reasons, and they admit that the reasons are valid," one student said, adding, "They ought to take each case on its merit...